{"id":82970,"date":"2026-02-23T08:20:49","date_gmt":"2026-02-23T08:20:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=82970"},"modified":"2026-02-23T08:20:49","modified_gmt":"2026-02-23T08:20:49","slug":"truck-accident-claims-one-life-on-dutse-bwari-highway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2026\/02\/23\/truck-accident-claims-one-life-on-dutse-bwari-highway\/","title":{"rendered":"Truck Accident Claims One Life on Dutse-Bwari Highway"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Patrick Idowu<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A truck assistant has died after a truck lost control and overturned near the Tipper Garage junction along the Dutse-Bwari Highway in Abuja.<\/p>\n<p>A resident, Ose Idasho, said the truck was heading from the Usuma Dam axis when it veered off the road and crashed near the Azman filling station.<\/p>\n<p>The vehicle reportedly fell on the assistant, killing him on the spot, and also struck two other vehicles before stopping.<\/p>\n<p>A separate accident occurred minutes later at the nearby Saukale roundabout. The FCT Sector Commander of the Federal Road Safety Corps, Felix Theman, confirmed both incidents, stating that only the first crash recorded a fatality.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Patrick Idowu A truck assistant has died after a truck lost control and overturned near the Tipper Garage junction along the Dutse-Bwari Highway in Abuja. A resident, Ose Idasho, said the truck was heading from the Usuma Dam axis when it veered off the road and crashed near the Azman filling station. The vehicle [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":82971,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[177,172],"tags":[59],"class_list":["post-82970","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-abuja-reports","category-news","tag-featured"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82970","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=82970"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82970\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":82972,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82970\/revisions\/82972"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/82971"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}