{"id":10038,"date":"2025-08-06T07:35:45","date_gmt":"2025-08-06T07:35:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/?p=10038"},"modified":"2025-08-06T14:46:20","modified_gmt":"2025-08-06T14:46:20","slug":"19-killed-13-injured-in-hoima-buliisa-road-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/2025\/08\/06\/19-killed-13-injured-in-hoima-buliisa-road-crash\/","title":{"rendered":"19 Killed, 13 Injured in Hoima-Buliisa Road Crash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Flavia Ajok<\/p>\n<p>Nineteen people have been killed in a road crash in Hoima District.\u00a0\u00a0The crash occurred on Tuesday at 10:30 p.m. at Nyabago cell, in Kigorobya Town Council, along the Hoima-Buliisa road.<\/p>\n<p>The Fuso lorry registration number UBB 639W was carrying more than 50 market vendors who were returning to Hoima City from a market in Buliisa. The vehicle failed to climb a hill, lost control, and overturned, killing nineteen people on the spot and critically injuring 13 others.<\/p>\n<p>Patrick Musinguzi, a resident of Kigorobya town council, explains that they had the vendors screaming for help immediately after the accident occurred.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 640px;\" class=\"wp-video\"><video class=\"wp-video-shortcode\" id=\"video-10038-1\" width=\"640\" height=\"368\" preload=\"metadata\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"video\/mp4\" src=\"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/08\/VID-20250806-WA0065.mp4?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/08\/VID-20250806-WA0065.mp4\">https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/08\/VID-20250806-WA0065.mp4<\/a><\/video><\/div>\n<p>Julius Hakiza, the Albertine region police spokesperson, said that the driver has since fled to an unknown destination, and the hunt for him is on.<\/p>\n<p>According to Hakiza, they have commenced investigations to establish the exact cause of the accident.<\/p>\n<p>He says police evacuated the injured persons to Hoima regional referral hospital, where they are currently undergoing treatment, while the bodies were conveyed to Hoima city mortuary.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Flavia Ajok Nineteen people have been killed in a road crash in Hoima District.\u00a0\u00a0The crash occurred on Tuesday at 10:30 p.m. at Nyabago cell, in Kigorobya Town Council, along the Hoima-Buliisa road. The Fuso lorry registration number UBB 639W was carrying more than 50 market vendors who were returning to Hoima City from a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":10041,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2,11,9],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-10038","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bunyoro","8":"category-national","9":"category-news"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10038","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10038"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10038\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10045,"href":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10038\/revisions\/10045"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10041"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}