{"id":41934,"date":"2020-08-28T20:20:01","date_gmt":"2020-08-28T20:20:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/three-perish-in-deadly-rwamagana-accident\/"},"modified":"2020-08-28T20:15:20","modified_gmt":"2020-08-28T20:15:20","slug":"three-perish-in-deadly-rwamagana-accident","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/three-perish-in-deadly-rwamagana-accident\/","title":{"rendered":"Three perish in deadly Rwamagana accident"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Eastern Province Police Spokesperson for the Eastern Province, CIP Twizeyimana Hamdun, told IGIHE that the accident happened around 5.30 pm when a Jeep Toyota Prado that was heading from Nyagatare to Kigali hit a cyclist identified as Alphonse Habimana in Rwamagana town.<\/p>\n<p>The Prado collided with an Actros Mercedes Benz before killing a taxi moto rider and his passenger. <\/p>\n<p>The driver of the Prado identified as Etienne Ruzindana was trying to escape from police after he made a hit and run on a cyclist who luckily cheated death.<\/p>\n<p>The car later lost the balance and hit the tree on the roadside, leaving the driver in critical condition.<\/p>\n<p>One of five persons he was carrying identified as Aloys Niyonzaba died in the accident while others were seriously injured.<\/p>\n<p>Police Spokesperson said that the accident wouldn\u2019t have been as fatal as it was had the driver not tried to escape.<\/p>\n<p> \u201cThe police stopped the driver after hitting the cyclist but he opted to escape and I don\u2019t think he was running against the clock to stick to curfew hours because he would have reached on time without considering going at the highest speed,\u201d CIP Twizeyimana said.<\/p>\n<p>The driver who caused the accident was immediately transferred to Kanombe Military Hospital for treatment.<\/p>\n<p>The bodies of the deceased were taken to Rwamagana Hospital for autopsy tests; while those who were injured during the accident were hospitalized at Rwamagana Hospital.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-36601 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/whatsapp_image_2020-08-27_at_23.36.25-d1f64.jpg\" alt=\"Three people were killed in an accident that took place at Plage Village in Nyarusange Cell in Muhazi Sector\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Three people were killed in an accident that took place on Thursday evening, August 27, 2020, at Plage Village in Nyarusange Cell in Muhazi Sector., while others were injured.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[75],"byline":[2942],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-41934","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-homenews","byline-nicole-kamanzi-m"],"bylines":[{"id":2942,"name":"Nicole Kamanzi M.","slug":"nicole-kamanzi-m","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":null}],"contributors":[{"id":2942,"name":"Nicole Kamanzi M.","slug":"nicole-kamanzi-m","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":null}],"featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41934","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/62"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41934"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41934\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41934"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41934"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41934"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=41934"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=41934"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}