Pius Lutumo, the Coast regional police commander, said at a press conference here that the accident occurred at around five in the morning, when a Toyota Alphard T. 395 DWE driven by Mohamed Athuman (40) hit a lorry, T.300. CLE parked on the roadside.
The three people, among them a child, died instantly at the crash impact, while two people severely injured, listing the dead as Zakia Mohamed (36), Nadim Nurdin (8 months) and Goleth (23), all residents of Kabuku township in Tanga Region, while the injured are Mohamed Athumani (40) and Alice Sangule (08).
The accident was caused by the lorry driver wrongly parking on the road side without any warning sign, naming the culprit as Alphonce Bosco (55).
Data from the World Health Organisation (WHO) published in 2020 for road traffic accident deaths in Tanzania indicated that 18,054 cases or 6.12 per cent of total deaths for that year. The age adjusted death rate stood at 49.33 per 100,000 persons in the population, ranking Tanzania at number 10 in the world for fatality rates in road accidents.
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