A total of 32 pupils from Trust Infant Primary school in Nakaseke district, have survived with minor injuries after a bus UBA 839B by which they were traveling, overturned at Nkumba traffic lights along the Kampala-Entebbe highway.
The incident happened on Friday afternoon as the pupils together with their teachers were heading to areas of Entebbe to tour the Airport and Entebbe Zoo. According to eye-witnesses, the bus driver could have missed the first traffic lights, focusing on the far-end traffic lights hence ramming into a government vehicle UG 2402C which was infront of him.
“From the Kampala side, the first traffic lights at Nkumba stage are somewhat in the valley, not so visible to a driver using this road for the first time. So, our driver could not see them hence failing to stop at the spot,” narrated one of the teachers who was aboard the bus.
However, most of the pupils disembarked with no fatalities, but in visible shock. The police was yet to issue a statement in regard to the incident, by press time.
In April this year, Raphael Okiot was cruising a Mitsubishi RVR UBQ 371P before being crashed by a concrete mixing truck UAN 836D at the same spot. A video captured on the police surveillance camera showed the cement mixer truck trying to avoid hitting Okiot’s car but ended up ramming into the middle road barrier before tipping over, falling onto the Mitsubishi vehicle.