{"id":1500,"date":"2025-10-29T09:16:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-29T09:16:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/youthtimes.news\/?p=1500"},"modified":"2025-10-29T09:16:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-29T09:16:08","slug":"makerere-university-student-succumbs-to-injuries-after-bwaise-road-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/youthtimes.news\/index.php\/2025\/10\/29\/makerere-university-student-succumbs-to-injuries-after-bwaise-road-crash\/","title":{"rendered":"Makerere University Student Succumbs to Injuries After Bwaise Road Crash"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"kampala-uganda-a-makerere-university-student-has-died-from-injuries-sustained-in-a-road-crash-that-occurred-on-tuesday-evening-at-bwaise-roundabout-in-kampala\"><strong>Kampala, Uganda \u2014<\/strong> A Makerere University student has died from injuries sustained in a road crash that occurred on Tuesday evening at Bwaise Roundabout in Kampala.<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>The crash happened when a taxi registration number UAZ 911F reportedly failed to brake and rammed into a boda boda motorcycle, killing the rider on the spot and leaving the passenger critically injured.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The passenger, identified as Muhammad Isa, a second-year student of Cytotechnology at Makerere University, succumbed to his injuries on Friday evening.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Makerere University Guild President, Ssentamu Churchill James, expressed deep sorrow over the incident and called for increased road safety vigilance among public service vehicle (PSV) drivers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>\u201cWe appeal to taxi drivers and all road users to routinely service their vehicles and drive responsibly to protect the lives of all Ugandans,\u201d Ssentamu said.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Police have since launched an investigation into the cause of the crash.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kampala, Uganda \u2014 A Makerere University student has died from injuries sustained in a road crash that occurred on Tuesday evening at Bwaise Roundabout in Kampala. The crash happened when a taxi registration number UAZ 911F reportedly failed to brake and rammed into a boda boda motorcycle, killing the rider on the spot and leaving [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1501,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_gspb_post_css":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1500","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-campus-connect"],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/youthtimes.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1500","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/youthtimes.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/youthtimes.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/youthtimes.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/youthtimes.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1500"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/youthtimes.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1500\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1502,"href":"https:\/\/youthtimes.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1500\/revisions\/1502"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/youthtimes.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1501"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/youthtimes.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/youthtimes.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/youthtimes.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}