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Mbarali accident leaves three dead
2006-03-06 10:59:26
By Nico Mwaibale, PST, Mbeya
Three people died on the spot on Saturday when the lorry they were travelling in hit a stationary truck on the Mbeya-Iringa highway in Mbarali District.
Mbeya regional police chief Suleiman Kova named the dead as Evarist Nziku, who was driving the ill-fated lorry, Laban Haule and John Kabage.
He said the accident took place near Mambi Village when the Scania lorry driven by Nziku crashed into a tipper that had stalled in the middle of the road after developing mechanical problems.
The driver of the tipper was injured and admitted to Mbeya Regional Hospital in a critical condition.
Kova said there were no signs to warn approaching motorists that there was a stationary vehicle ahead.
”There was no way the lorry driver could have known that there was a stationary vehicle in the middle of the road ahead because there was no sign…the stationary tipper materialised just as the lorry was coming out of a bend and there was no time to avoid it,” the RPC added.
He said the driver of the tipper would appear in court on a charge of causing deaths through negligence once he was well enough.
Meanwhile, a Mbozi District resident committed suicide by taking a pesticide at Ikonya Village on Saturday.
Kova said it had not been established why 20-year-old Vasta Mbazu decided to take his own life.
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