A speeding car kills school children on the road

By Charles Katabalwa

08^th February 2023

Police are hunting for the driver of a Toyota Hilux registration number UBK 108P that knocked dead a pupil and injured four other people while crossing Kampala-Jinja Highway in Mukono district this morning.

Twelve-year-old Alice Sheila Namwanje, a former primary seven pupil of Naluse Primary School in Mukono Municipality was crossing from her home at Upper Kauga to the school found at Butebe Cell together with her classmate, Jenipher Namatovu.

They were walking close to Paul Kalyango, a teacher at Naggalama senior secondary, and Diana Namulindwa, a senior two student of Bishop senior secondary school when the vehicle that was destined for Kampala ran over Namwanje.

The driver attempted to park alongside the road but rammed into a boda Boda rider and immediately switched on the siren and sped off. The Boda boda rider whose identity wasn’t readily available is admitted in the Intensive Care Unit at Mukono General Hospital while Kalyango was referred from Ebenezer Medical Center to Mulago National Referral Hospital for specialized treatment and Namulindwa is still receiving treatment at Ebenezer Medical Center.

The Kampala Metropolitan Police Spokesperson, Patrick Onyango has promised to give a detailed report about the incident after getting a postmortem report.