A traffic police officer and a boda boda rider on Thursday, 15 December 2022 following a road accident at Adwila along the Lira-Soroti road.
The accident, which claimed the life of Constable Micha Muhindo, involved a Ford Ranger belonging to the Ministry of Internal Affairs and a Bajaj Boxer motorcycle.
According to police, the Ford Ranger belonging to the Ministry of Internal Affairs knocked a motorcycle Bajaj Boxer, Reg No. UEU 841C.
“It is alleged that the driver, Pc Oginere John, and a police officer were coming from Soroti; upon reaching Adwila, they knocked the rider, Bob Odongo, who lost control and knocked PC Muhindo to death. The rider, too, died on the way to Lira Regional Referral Hospital,” Faridah Nampiima, the traffic police spokesperson said in a statement.
She said the driver has been arrested and is in our custody to help in investigations
“Our sincere condolences to the family of the deceased officer and Odongo Bob,” Nampiima said.
This comes three days after two police officers died while 11 others survived with critical injuries after a police patrol land cruiser vehicle they were travelling in overturned at Paicho Trading Centre, along Gulu-Kitgum Highway on December 12.
Police have identified the deceased as Pius Epodoi Pius and Marvin Odong.
Two of the 14 survivors said that the yet-to-be-identified driver of the pickup vehicle was over-speeding.
In July, a Police Constable (PC) attached to Katwe Police Station in Kampala, his wife, their two children and two other people died in a road crash on Kampala-Masaka Road.
PC Cleopus Bwesigye and his family were travelling to Mbarara side when their car, a Toyota Wish, collided with an oncoming Fuso truck at Kyalusowe swamp on Kampala-Masaka Road around 4:30am.
Road crashes are on the rise in the country with an average of 12 people killed on Ugandan roads daily, according to police statistics.
Police attribute the cause to human error and recklessness driving on the froads.
Despite the CCTV cameras system being installed on several roads, many motorists still break the traffic rules.
