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13 perish in horrific Kombi accident
20 June 2012
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BULAWAYO (ZimEye)- A TOTAL of 13 people perished in a horrific accident while four were injured when an overloaded commuter omnibus veered off the road along the Mbembesi-Fort Rixon Road.
The commuter omnibus then crashed into Nonka River on Monday evening.The injured passengers are admitted at United Bulawayo Hospitals.
Police officer commanding traffic Senior Assistant Commissioner Martin Chari confirmed the accident, saying the omnibus was overloaded and speeding resulting in the driver losing control at about 9km off the Bulawayo-Gweru Road.
Chari attacked transporters for overloading and speeding which has resulted in unnecessary loss of life.
He said a raft of strategies have been crafted to force transporters to comply with the Road Traffic and Road Motor Transportation Acts.
The strategies include speed traps on main and feeder roads, checks on drivers’ worthiness to drive passenger vehicles as well as sobriety checks of drivers.
Overloaded and speeding commuter omnibus accidents have claimed a significant number of lives in recent months, a situation that Senior Assistant Commissioner Martin Chari said could have been avoided had the drivers not overloaded, and limited themselves to the speed limit of 80km/h.
(Zimbabwe, ZimEye)

33 Replies to “13 perish in horrific Kombi accident”

  1. to every driver….,: be a polieman unto yourself and forget about the corrupt ones on our roads.

  2. Comrad naked u are saying im also mani congo.haa.do u know that i protested by not visiting this site afta tribalism had reachd alarming rates.My friends are both shonas and ndebele.i know origins of ethnicity and wil neva folo it.

  3. For the first time I say thank you Bla Miki for tackling tribalism,I can see Mani Congo is ashamed of his comment n has changed his name back to Papa Wembwa .Lets hope Bla Miki one day you will apologise kuma Gukurahundi victims SHONA MTHWAKAZIAN come back home

  4. Some pple like mani congo are realy stupid.Wel afta a long time,papa wemba is bac.i say sory 2 thoz whoz relatives died.Oficer iwe neni tine basa.pasengers must also stop drivers from overspeeding.We did it when i was going mtare.i ended driving the kombi to the next road blok.

  5. Yep thats your Bla Miki but it does not mean that l’ll get along with you fool Naked. It shows that l’m a human being.

  7. Police corruption or not, special emphasis should be given to drivers and hwindiz. Haasi Traffic Officer anogadzika munhu pakadoma, kurembera kana kuita chinamira but ndihwindi nadriver. Even if a Kombi is stopped and found to be overloaded, officers will simply fine the Kombi driver and let it go, according to law, offers cannot remove excess passengers. Also motorists must dessist from warning speeding motorists coming from the opposite direction about police presence, vanosvika paspeed trap in a normal speed ochizoivhetemesa zvake apfuura saka ngonjo rinopinda papi apa? Iwe Mani Kongay kuipa saambuya vaTsvangirai, why do you behave like Naked? You must be insane, why don’t you value life? Do you think those Ndex who perished chose to end their lives? Stupid mdc goon.

  9. Mani Kongo, how foolish of you to say such a thing. What percentage of accidents occur in Matabeleland in relation to the whole country? Are you saying the speeding drivers are all Ndebele, the very corrupt traffic cops Ndebele? Are you saying all those who die in road accidents are Ndebele? Are all unroadworthy vehicles owned by the Ndebele? Are the poor roads damaged by the Ndebele? Are drunk drivers all Ndebele? Are all bus drivers who sleep less chasing targets Ndebele driving unserviced buses owned by the Ndebele. Was all Ndebele blood shed in the 80s a result of ‘satanic Ndebele’ called Gukurahundi vachipedzana as you put it? Grow up. Why cant we mourn the departed in a sober manner? How I wish your mother had aborted while pregnant with you or just dumped you soon after birth because the world would be a better place without people like you.

  10. mani kongo,you are a fool…what century are you living in??idiot you practice witchcraft yourself

  11. The police should protect us not to be bribed by the combi drivers.do your job as it is .u shld know that we are here to live not to die.

  12. Al things are conectd.accident and tribe. Ndebele satanists.how can u do that! altho we all know that witchcraft is part of yo culture but this z too much.sory to thoz who died.these cannibalists wil finish each otha.

  13. Mota dzeAsia ndodzaita sei?Ndidzo dzinokonzeresa overloading neoverspeeding here?The drivers are just a brainless lot.Most of them are school dropouts or failed dismally at school.To expect such a lot to realise that human life is sacrosanct is pure wishful thinking.Police corruption makes the situation worse

  14. Pple dont be crazy for nothing. You call for police action but ndimi munotanga kusvora kana vasunga mabhazi amunenge makakwira imi.

  15. toitaseiko nemapurisa edu zvotoperera mu migwagwa?mapurisa ngaangopihwe mari inokwana

  16. With traffic cops dotted in every road, in great numbers this should not be happening at all, but because they are only after bribes we will continue to lose more lives. Shameful indeed!

  17. Madriver life is ours ,not for the police officers .Even if they don’t do their job properly lets just follow the rules because we know them.

  18. The bleaf of polis these dayz is ,when they are leaving offices going to the roadblocks they say we are going to kosovo,so they won’t wrk coz they wll be alwayz after cash & they are saying kosovo is nw on the roads.

  21. traffic cops ar to blame on these carnages becaz they ar benefiting financialy ,by let going overloaded combis,they issue tickets or take bribes and the combi wil proceed risking the lives of men its food fo thought to th chefs, muri kuuraisa vanhu nekuda kwemari, corruption corruption

  22. Those traffic cops are useless! Humps will do a much better job. They will not ask for any bribe and will make sure you reduce your damn speed! Another piece of donkey logic from this Zanu coliform bacteria above who believes Zim police are there to police.

  23. Shame, very sad indeed loosing lives because of poor judgement and negligency. May the departed souls rest in peace. MDC wants to remove traffic corps from the roads and replace them with humps?

  25. Zupco bus carrying 27 passengers at 6am to gweru crashes killing 10 on the spot.according to driver he never saw the broken down truck as the mist was to much.thats a lame excuse mr driver.how your bus was ripped up,seems your speed was way over 120km/h.get well soon brother.rip the lost souls. .

  27. Why is the ZUPCO story been kept quite. . .but when its a commuter ominbus its a big story.accidents are meant to happen,we cant prevent it.lets look at the zupco bus was it not over loaded? Look along lomagundi rd by westgate every morning the soilders been ferried to work each zupco bus is carrying nearly 200 soilders. . What dose the government say about it

  28. KOMBI SHOULD BE LOADED AS FOLLOWS BACK SEAT 4 then the rest of seats 3 per line front 1 passenger to reduce overload

  31. police should work properly to reduce number of accident bt ey should stop kuda chioko muhomwe.

  33. near connmara prison another bus accident killng 10 people ths morning,the zupco bus from kwekwe going gweru.something must be done really

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