Teacher, Moses Kakonko, at Nyakasura School, Fort Portal, dies after involvement in ambulance and stationary car accident along the Fort Portal-Kasese Highway.
Two people died and two others were critically injured on Thursday night after a speeding Fort Portal bound ambulance rammed into a stationary car along the Fort Portal-Kasese Highway.
The ambulance belonging to former Bunyangabu County MP aspirant Dr Womujuni Vincent.
Authorities say the ambulance belonging to former Bunyangabu County MP aspirant Dr Womujuni Vincent was moving to pick a body when it crashed into a Mercedes Benz.
Rwenzori West police spokesperson Vincent Twesige said the parked vehicle had a mechanical fault which forced it to park on the road although the driver had activated the triangle reflectors to alert other road users.
According to Twesige, the accident happened on Thursday at 9:30 pm in Kibedi, Mugusu Sub County along the Fort Portal –Kasese Highway. He explains that the ambulance registration number UBK 137V that was heading to Fort Portal from Bunyangabu District rammed into a stationary vehicle registration number CG0 6078AA/19 that had got a mechanical condition and was parked in the middle of the road.
Twesige says that the ambulance was going to pick up a body from one of the hospitals in Fort Portal City.
The road crash was particularly at Kibendi-Mugusu along Fort Portal-Kasese highway in the North Division of Fort Portal City.
“The cause of the road crash was over speeding and reckless driving,” police noted.
The deceased, who were both traveling in the ambulance, have been identified as Moses Kakonko,52, a teacher at Nyakasura School and 25-year-old Simon Baker who was a resident of Kichwamba in Kabarole District.
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