Gulu District Production Officer Dies in Road Crash

A motor vehicle crash along the Gulu-Kampala Highway has claimed the life of Gulu District Production Officer, Jackson Lakor. Lakor reportedly died on the spot on Sunday afternoon after his vehicle rammed into a stationary trailer at Minakulu Upper Trading Centre in Oyam District.

Lakor was reportedly from Lira City, where he had attended a meeting and was driving a double-cabin pickup to Gulu City. According to the North Kyoga Public Relations Officer, Patrick Okema, the deceased reportedly lost control of the motor vehicle before crashing into a parked trailer with registration number SSD 326V/ZE 0238.

Okema noted that following the incident, traffic police intervened swiftly at the crash scene, conducted interviews with eyewitnesses, took photos of the scene before retrieving he body of the deceased from the wreckage. He noted that the deceased body was transferred to the Gulu Regional Referral Hospital morgue pending postmortem to ascertain the exact cause of death.

“It's a very unfortunate accident, we are conducting more findings to a certain exactly what happened,” Okema stated in a press statement on Sunday. Meanwhile, in a related development, nine passengers of YY Bus Company, who include an expectant mother, are receiving medical treatment at Anaka Hospital in Nwoya District after being involved in a road crash on Sunday morning.

The incident happened in Ayago village in Anaka Sub-county, Nwoya District along the Karuma-Pakwach Highway at about 11 Am. According to the police report, the driver of the bus, who is on the run, reportedly veered off the road and hit a rock while attempting to overtake a vehicle that was also overtaking another vehicle.

The bus driver was reportedly driving to Yumbe District from Kampala when the incident occurred. Aswa West Public Relations Officer David Ongom Mudong, in a statement on Sunday, noted that the bus driver opted to overtake another vehicle whose driver was also overtaking another vehicle, adding that in the process, the YY Bus Company driver lost control to his extreme right.

Mudong noted that the bus entered a trench and later hit a big rock on the right-hand side of the road. Police identified the injured as 22-year-old Daniel Musinguzi, a resident of Mbarara; Ronald Odong, 33, a resident of Zombo district; Akim Omirambe, 36, a resident of Nebbi District; Gladys Ajolorwoth, 28, an expectant mother and resident of Nebbi district; and Comfort Jakuma, 32, a resident of Nebbi district.

Others are Joel Dragule, 25, a resident of Arua City, Ismail Amuku, a Uganda People’s Defce Forces Officer attached at the Uganda Revenue Authority Office in Iganga district, Ruth Ajolo, 34, from Nebbi district, RaAjolo Glades Ruth, female, aged 34 years, a resident of Nebbi District, and Racio Lydia 50, from Zombo district.