Apprentice crushed to death along Freetown/Guinea highway
Hassan Kamara of 82 lower Congo town in the capital of Freetown, was crushed to death by a blue-black Sunny car, about two miles from Bamoi-Luma, along the Freetown/Guinea highway. Hassan was said to be lying in the middle of the road, when the speeding car ran over him.
The driver of the vehicle, (Hassan’s boss) explained that, he was heading for the capital of Freetown from the border town of Kambia, in the north-west part of the country, and was loading some bags of pepper and other foodstuffs.
“We had a breakdown, about two miles off Bamoi, and it was almost 5:30am”, the driver narrated. The driver pursued that, he went along with Hassan (deceased), in search of a fitter at Bamoi, who could have mended the problem, but couldn’t get one. And by the time the two could return from Bamoi, the driver said, his Apprentice (Hassan), was complaining of being very much hungry. Yet, there was nowhere to get or buy some food at that point in time.
Sources say, a few moments after the two had returned to their breakdown point where some of the disgruntled and unhappy passengers where anxiously waiting, the driver then dropped Hassan from a motor bike they hired. This time, the driver went to Bamoi alone, leaving the deceased (Hassan and another colleague Apprentice) in conversation with the passengers.
Mysteriously according to the passengers’ accounts, Hassan was never spotted lying in the middle of the highway, either as a result of fatigue or hunger. Hassan was noticed dead when the passengers shockingly heard a heavy knock from the speeding car.
The driver of the Sunny car, with registration number-ADT 668, narrated that there was heavy fall of dew, when he spotted an unidentified object. He said, he tried to keep off the object, but had already faced another lorry from the opposite direction. Uncontrollably, the right tyre of the car eventually overran his head and he died on the spot, the driver sadly explained.
Nevertheless, the two drivers are currently helping the Police in their investigations, with the remains of Hassan likely buried after a conducted autopsy. Expressing regrets, the Divisional Traffic Officer-Kambia Traffic division, Inspector Sheka Dumbuya said, it was rather an unfortunate situation for a man to lie in the middle of the road, not to talk of an international highway.
However, it could be recalled that excessive overloading of vehicles in/out of vehicles and Lorries was the order of the day, within and through the border vicinity. Today, it can be attested that some proactive Policing orders have prevailed law/order, much to the satisfaction of the public and regular travelers to/from neighboring Guinea.
Recent investigations and visits by this medium have proved it that, vehicles and Lorries are still been overloaded from neighboring Guinea, but are never allowed to enter Sierra Leone in such an ugly and unsafe manner.
When contacted, DTO Dumbuya challenged that the Sierra Leone Police Force in line with the National Revenue Authority (NRA) have introduced what he called the “downsizing” of overloaded Lorries and vehicles. This system is a must for drivers and hire-men to comply, because anyone found flouting these laws, will just have to find himself in court. This is an order from the President of the Republic through the pro-activeness of Assistant Inspector General of Police-North-west, FUK Darboe, the Inspector authoritatively challenged.
By Alie Mozart Sesay
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