{"id":4986,"date":"2024-10-08T10:03:33","date_gmt":"2024-10-08T10:03:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zimgbcnews.co.zw\/?p=4986"},"modified":"2024-10-08T10:03:35","modified_gmt":"2024-10-08T10:03:35","slug":"three-dead-eight-injured-in-chivhu-ray-road-head-on-collision","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/zimgbcnews.co.zw\/?p=4986","title":{"rendered":"Three Dead, Eight Injured in Chivhu-Ray Road Head-On Collision"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><br>Harare Correspondent<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Police have confirmed a tragic road traffic accident that occurred on Thursday, October 3, at approximately 10:00 AM at the 61-kilometre peg along Chivhu-Ray Road.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In this devastating incident, a Toyota Wish carrying eight passengers collided head-on with an Isuzu D-Max that had two passengers on board. The collision resulted in three fatalities and left eight others injured.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) reported,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe ZRP confirms a fatal road traffic accident which occurred on 03\/10\/24 at around 1000 hours at the 61-kilometre peg along Chivhu-Ray Road. Three people were killed while eight others were injured when a Toyota Wish vehicle with eight passengers on board and an Isuzu DMax vehicle with two passengers on board were involved in a head-on collision.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Following the impact, the Isuzu D-Max veered off the road, overturned, and came to rest on its wheels. The police added,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cAs a result of the collision, the Isuzu Dmax vehicle veered off the road and overturned before landing on wheels.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The bodies of the deceased were transported to Gutu Mission Hospital mortuary for post-mortem examinations, while the injured individuals were admitted to the same hospital for treatment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In a related incident on the same day, a haulage truck struck a man along Amalinda Road near the Boka Tobacco Auction Floor in Harare and failed to stop after the accident. This hit-and-run incident also occurred on October 3. The victim sustained a broken leg and was subsequently referred to Sally Mugabe Hospital for further treatment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Harare police are actively appealing for information that may assist in their investigation into the hit-and-run case.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cAnyone with relevant information is urged to report to the nearest police station,\u201d they stated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Zim GBC News\u00a92024<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Harare Correspondent Police have confirmed a tragic road traffic accident that occurred on Thursday, October 3, at approximately 10:00 AM at the 61-kilometre peg along Chivhu-Ray Road. In this devastating&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4987,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[111],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4986","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-social-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/zimgbcnews.co.zw\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4986","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/zimgbcnews.co.zw\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/zimgbcnews.co.zw\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zimgbcnews.co.zw\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zimgbcnews.co.zw\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4986"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/zimgbcnews.co.zw\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4986\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4988,"href":"http:\/\/zimgbcnews.co.zw\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4986\/revisions\/4988"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zimgbcnews.co.zw\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4987"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/zimgbcnews.co.zw\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zimgbcnews.co.zw\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zimgbcnews.co.zw\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}