{"id":79324,"date":"2019-06-19T10:33:32","date_gmt":"2019-06-19T08:33:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.times.mw\/?p=79324"},"modified":"2019-06-19T10:33:32","modified_gmt":"2019-06-19T08:33:32","slug":"7-injured-in-road-accident","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/2019\/06\/19\/7-injured-in-road-accident\/","title":{"rendered":"7 injured in road accident"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em>By Emmanuel Chirwa: <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_79328\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-79328\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"\/\/www.times.mw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/dennis-road-accident.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-79328\" src=\"http:\/\/www.times.mw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/dennis-road-accident-300x185.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"185\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/dennis-road-accident-300x185.jpg 300w, https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/dennis-road-accident.jpg 593w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-79328\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">CLOSE CALL\u2014 What remains of the truck<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Seven people have been injured and six cars damaged in a road accident involving a Scania truck and five other vehicles along the Old Chileka Road in Blantyre City.<\/p>\n<p>Ndirande Police spokesperson, Edina Mzingwitsa, has confirmed the development.<\/p>\n<p>Mzingwitsa said the Scania truck, registration number NU 3637, en-route to Kameza Roundabout, developed brake failure on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>The truck hit five vehicles before it hit the fence of Chombo Orphanage Centre.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>\u201cWhen the truck reached Monarch, it hit three vehicles and proceeded to hit two more at Dennis before it swerved to the left and hit a fence of Chombo Orphanage.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cSeven people got injured in the accident. Six of them were treated as outpatients at Queen Elizabeth Central Hospital while the driver of the truck, Hastings Phiri, is still receiving treatment at the hospital,\u201d<\/em> she said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The accident occurred just days after a train hit a truck at a railway crossing in Machinjiri Township, Blantyre.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Emmanuel Chirwa: Seven people have been injured and six cars damaged in a road accident involving a Scania truck and five other vehicles along the Old Chileka Road in Blantyre City. Ndirande Police spokesperson, Edina Mzingwitsa, has confirmed the development. Mzingwitsa said the Scania truck, registration number NU 3637, en-route to Kameza Roundabout, developed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-79324","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79324","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=79324"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79324\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":79329,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79324\/revisions\/79329"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}