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A motorist identified as Pedro Raimundo has been detained by a police unit at the José Macamo General Hospital for causing a road accident that could have cost the lives of 26 people who narrowly escaped the incident with only injuries.
The accident occurred last Wednesday morning in the Marracuene district of Maputo province. When A Verdade arrived at the scene, victims had already been evacuated to hospitals, but onlookers were still commenting on what had happened.
Eyewitnesses reported that the accident happened around 5:00 AM in Michafutene, on the EN1 near the Police Academy of Sciences (ACIPOL), and was caused when a minibus (Chapa) crashed into a stationary lorry on the side of the road.
Mateus Inguane, one of the people who saw the accident, told us that Raimundo was attempting to overtake another minibus travelling in the same direction. “He could have avoided the accident, and I think his intention was to pick up more passengers at a stop up ahead,” he said.
However, after hitting the lorry, the driver was unable to control his vehicle and crashed into a ‘My Love’ on the Mali-Maputo city route which had stopped to let passengers off, one Herculano Joao related.
The crash was so violent that the minibus, on the Xipamanine-Manhiça route, jumped the central barrier, skidded to the opposite side of the road and then returned to its original lane before coming to a stop against a wall.
The 26 injured were evacuated to the Jose Macamo General Hospital, from where at least 19 more seriously injured were transferred to Maputo Central Hospital.
Of these 19, two are in critical condition, while three were still under evaluation at the time of going to press. Indications were that they would require surgery.
A Verdade learned from police at Jose Macamo that the drivers of both the lorry and the ‘My Love’ had been summoned to give testimony in the case.
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