{"id":217335,"date":"2025-10-22T07:31:06","date_gmt":"2025-10-22T07:31:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/217335\/"},"modified":"2025-10-22T07:31:06","modified_gmt":"2025-10-22T07:31:06","slug":"uganda-road-crash-leaves-more-than-60-dead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/217335\/","title":{"rendered":"Uganda road crash leaves more than 60 dead"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Sixty-three people have died after several vehicles crashed on a highway in Uganda, police said on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Two buses travelling in opposite directions &#8220;met head on&#8221; while trying to overtake two other vehicles \u2013 a lorry and a car \u2013 on the Kampala-Gulu Highway at 00:15 local time (21:15 GMT), according to the Uganda Police Force.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">One of the buses swerved in an attempt to avoid a crash, but in the process caused a &#8220;head on and side collision&#8221; that led to a &#8220;chain reaction&#8221; in which other vehicles lost control and overturned.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">As well as the fatalities, passengers of the vehicles involved and several others were injured, police said. An investigation has been launched.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sixty-three people have died after several vehicles crashed on a highway in Uganda, police said on Wednesday. Two&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":217336,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":{"0":"post-217335","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217335","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=217335"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217335\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/217336"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=217335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=217335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}