{"id":72752,"date":"2019-01-02T04:38:08","date_gmt":"2019-01-02T02:38:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.times.mw\/?p=72752"},"modified":"2019-01-02T04:38:08","modified_gmt":"2019-01-02T02:38:08","slug":"3-people-die-in-lilongwe-road-accident","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/2019\/01\/02\/3-people-die-in-lilongwe-road-accident\/","title":{"rendered":"3 people die in Lilongwe road accident"},"content":{"rendered":"

By MacDonald Thom:<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Three people have been killed in a road accident which occurred Tuesday on the newly constructed Parliament- Area 18 Round-about\u2014 Bingu National Stadium dual carriageway.<\/p>\n

Lingadzi Police spokesperson, Gift Chitowe, said the accident occurred in the early hours of the day.<\/p>\n

He said the accident involved a Volkswagen Polo, registration number DA 8973, which was being driven by Kondwani Mwale, and two bicycle taxis.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe motor vehicle was coming from the direction of Area 18 Roundabout heading towards Bingu National Stadium. In the process, the driver lost control of vehicle and hit a pedal cyclist who was heading in the same direction and was carrying a passenger. Due to the impact, he swerved from left to right and, as he was returning to the left, he hit another pedal cyclist,\u201d<\/em> Chitowe said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

He said the one riding the second bicycle, who was yet to be identified, and the passenger on the first bicycle, identified as Sheila Banda, died on the spot.<\/p>\n

Chitowe also said the one riding the first bicycle, identified as Felix Hinga, died on arrival at Kamuzu Central Hospital.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, the Lingadzi Police publicist has said the police have arrested Mwale.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe is in police custody and he is expected to answer charges of causing death by reckless driving and negligence,\u201d<\/em> Chitowe said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By MacDonald Thom: Three people have been killed in a road accident which occurred Tuesday on the newly constructed Parliament- Area 18 Round-about\u2014 Bingu National Stadium dual carriageway. Lingadzi Police spokesperson, Gift Chitowe, said the accident occurred in the early hours of the day. He said the accident involved a Volkswagen Polo, registration number DA […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":72757,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72752","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72752","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72752"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72752\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72758,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72752\/revisions\/72758"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/72757"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72752"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}