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<\/p>\nA truck driver, Desire Madiviko (56), who caused a fatal road accident which claimed 17 lives along Seke Road, has been jailed for five years.<\/p>\n
He was also banned for life from driving Class 2 motor vehicles.<\/p>\n
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He was also prohibited from driving all other classes of motor vehicles for two (2) years, with cancellation of all existing licences.<\/p>\n
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He was initially sentenced to seven years with two (2) years suspended for five (5) years on condition of good behaviour, resulting in an effective sentence of five (5) years’ imprisonment.<\/p>\n
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The driver was convicted of culpable homicide.<\/p>\n
The court established that the offender, while driving a South African-registered Nissan UD heavy truck, operated the vehicle at an excessive speed, lost control, mounted a road island, struck pedestrians and veered into oncoming traffic, where he collided with a commuter omnibus.<\/p>\n
The truck overturned and landed onto the omnibus.<\/p>\n
After a full trial, the court found the offender guilty of gross negligence and sentenced him as follows:<\/p>\n
He appeared before Chitungwiza Magistrates’ Court.<\/p>\n
The incident occurred along Seke Road, Chitungwiza, on July 22, which resulted in the loss of seventeen (17) lives and the injury to five (5) others.<\/p>\n
The collision between a fully-loaded city-bound 30-tonne haulage truck and a commuter omnibus heading to Chitungwiza left blood, twisted metal, shattered glass and heartbreak in its wake.<\/p>\n
What began as an ordinary day ended in unimaginable tragedy, plunging the town into mourning and struggling to come to terms with the sudden loss.<\/p>\n
The commuter omnibus was reduced to a crumpled shell, its roof and frame flattened under the weight of the haulage vehicle.<\/p>\n
The front of the truck was mangled, the windscreen smashed and bumper buckled, but it was the kombi that absorbed the full force of the impact.<\/p>\n
So severe was the impact that it took three cranes to lift the trailer to retrieve bodies that were trapped underneath.<\/p>\n
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