NEWS:Three Injured In Entebbe Expressway Accident

  

By Our Report.

Three people have been injured following an accident on the Entebbe expressway.

The accident occurred on Saturday morning and involved two vehicles.

Joy Nabaasa, the PRO of Egiss Engineering Contractors Ltd, the company managing the road, said the accident happened at 9:40 am and was due to an over-speeding motorist trying to overtake another.

In the process, she said one of the vehicles pushed the other off the road and they both overturned.

She said the accident happened at Mpala towards Kajjansi. According to her, three male adults sustained injuries and were taken to Seguku hospital.

By press time, it was not clear what the state of the injured was or their identities as the Police traffic directorate was yet to release a report on the matter.

Accidents on the highway have been going up in the last few months. In March, Damita Kuteesa, a bride-to-be, and her two friends were killed just a week before her wedding.

Kuteesa was set to get married next week to her fiancé Rabbie Kays Kitibwa with whom she got engaged last year.

Kuteesa died together with her two friends identified as Prisca Nalugo and Rina after they got involved in a horrible accident as they returned from a friend’s bridal shower in Entebbe.

Kuteesa, who was a church choir dancer at Miracle Centre church, and her friends died on a Sunday night after the car in which they were traveling rolled several times along the Entebbe Expressway.

Some motorists blame increased accidents on slippery sections on the road, something which was contested by Nabaasa. She said the problem is recklessness.

'Since it is the first expressway, people are excited and they tend to Overspeed,' she said.

The main project objective of the Kampala-Entebbe Expressway is to provide an efficient mass transit route between two vital cities (Kampala and Entebbe) in the Greater Kampala Metropolitan Area (GKMA) region and decongest Kampala.

The total length of the project is 49.56km and is being constructed using the design and build approach.

Funded by Exim Bank of China and the Government of Uganda, the project commenced on 19th November 2012 and was expected to be complete by 18th November 2017, but this was revised to 16th November 2018, and again revised to 25th July 2019.