Chinjoka Bus lands in a valley of Bua River: Driver avoided head-on collision

As Malawi continue to experience rising occurrence of road accidents, on Monday a Chinjoka Bus Servicen landed in the valley of  Bua River in central region district of Nkhotakota as the driver was avoidning a head on collisison with an oncoming track on a single lane bridge.

Bus in the valley

Ministry of Information and Communications Technology Nicholas Dausi said in statement issued last week that government is shocked on the occurrence of accidents on the roads of Malawi that have claimed lives and left many others injured over the past two weeks.

Meanwhile, the Malawi Institution of Engineers (MIE) has said it is ready to work with the Malawi Police Service, Traffic Department, the Department of Road Traffic and Safety Services and other stakeholders in reducing the road carnage.

In a statement signed by MIE executive secretary Engineer Martin Chazalema, the local engineer’s body said it is deeply concerned with the recent spate of fatal road accidents in all three regions of the country in the recent past.

Said the statement: “MIE is mandated to, among other objectives, protect and assist the public of Malawi on all matters touching, ancillary or incidental to the engineering profession. Transportation and highways are incidental to the engineering profession.”

The body has since called on stakeholders concerned with these accidents to work closely together by carrying out thorough investigations into the increased occurrences of road accidents, immediately implementing whatever interventions necessary to curb this trend of fatal road accidents and looking into addressing the various root causes of these accidents which represent a major loss to the nation as a whole.

MIE has also called upon the  general public to take part in this drive to improve safety of our people by among other things adhering to service requirements of vehicles, not driving or using vehicles that are not roadworthy, avoiding speeding at all times, never driving vehicles under the influence of alcohol or other drug and avoiding careless driving.

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King wa king
6 years ago

Misewu ya lakeshore yonse ndiyowola thats y ngozi zikuchitika chitika magalimoto akulephera kupatukana pliz owona ndikukhonza za misewu gwilaponi ntchito

mpota wa theba
6 years ago

malawi amoto,1974 chakwamba ndiemwe adamenya mafumu 19 kuwatibula,including amfumu achikumbu kamba kosachangamuka,

concerned Citizen
concerned Citizen
6 years ago

These so called Governments since 1994 are busy constructing misewu y kwao yopanda ntchito kwni kweni leaving very important roads like lake shore road. This road is very small not meant for dual carriage and most of the bridges are single lane especially from Benga to Dwagwa ind Nkhotakota. All these multi party Governments have done nothing to improve this road. Accidents are common along this road because of its condition. In addition to that, there is Nkhotakota Kasungu road, is half way not tarred up now. What sort of development are they doing? They are busy developing where they… Read more »

ndadabwa
6 years ago

dzina la bus la satana. what do you expect.

Diphiphi
Diphiphi
6 years ago

Kodi iwe Gutete bus zones zikuchita ngozi ndi za satanic AXA, Matuors, Future Tuors ndi magalimoto enawa

Cholasa
Cholasa
6 years ago

Are you sure guys of all the names? one choosing that name? Again, should really one board a bus called chinjoka and except to be at peace? mhhhhhh! Its the same as having a restaurant called ‘Vanyansi”

sayimoni bayisikolo
6 years ago

Its normal to drive a vehicle in Malawi while highly intoxicated from cheap liquor like midori and sachets.We are so good in blaming satanic on everything forgetting we are our owndevils ourselves.The state of roads are too bad.Potholes are all over everywhere.Unqualified drivers are on a steering wheels or some with no licences as longer as they can dish some money to some hungry traffic policemen and are a free people to drive anyhow. I remember this other day i was in a minibus which was travelling at hair raising speed like some formula one car.I later learnt that the… Read more »

Maunits
Maunits
6 years ago

See the main road that goes to Kasungu very sad. The has been very small now in that when you cross with a truck with heart break. we dont have leadership in this country. President uses the same road to Mzuzu but he cant see the road is almost finished no one is taking heed. DPP becomes very happy when they see people dying like that they are killers. If they are not by now they could have sorted this mess

Mzika Yeni Yeni
Mzika Yeni Yeni
6 years ago

Ayi zachuluka ndizibwana pa mseu. Ma Driving Licence a machita ku pangitsa kenako kuyamba kuyendetsa ma Galimoto ndi Ma Bus onyamula anthu. To those that are Old Enough, in the old days the accidents were assessed and if they trace any careless driving on part of the drivers , they were sent for another driving test in Zomba. Unless if it was mechanical fault. In the case of PSV Licences they were either trained at Zomba Ministry of Works or at UTM ( Stage Coach). All this is gone to the dogs. Katangale wachuluka even to those carrying lives of… Read more »

Pres macron
Pres macron
6 years ago

MIE my foot ! Mukumanga miseu yo nyasa kwabasi. In two months nseu wagumuka inu mungoyang’anila. Kanseu koti big cars cannot pass each other, tawonani ka nseu kaku limbe ,ntaya, chinyonga

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