By George Bukenya
Kampala, Uganda—At least 15 people lost lives in road crashes last week according to the weekly traffic police report, while scores escaped with injuries in the crashes that occurred in the different parts of the country.
The most notable fatal one occurred at Kitalanga along Ggaba road on October 22, 2026 where a motor cycle rider who was ridging against unauthorised lane lost control while attempting to get back to the authorised lane lost control and collided with another vehicle head-on thus running over the female passenger killing her instantly and the rider succumbed to injuries.
Another one happened at Kakumiro- Kibale road on October 23 where three people who were travelling on a motor cycle died. According to the report, the motor cycle carrying a woman and a child was travelling from Kakumiro to Kibale, a vehicle coming from opposite direction while trying to overtake yet at a high speed also colliding with the motor cycle killing the women while the child and the rider succumbed to injuries as they where being rushed to hospital.
Two other people lost lives at Kiwologoma in Buikwe district in yet another road crash that happened on October 25 as a speeding vehicle knocked a motor cycle.
Speaking to reporters at Police’s Naguru based headquarters, the directorate of traffic spokesperson Michael Kananura revealed that of the road crashes occurred this week, 46% involved pedisticians while 30% where motor cyclists.
He said most of the fatal road crashes occur at weekends and he attributes this to the careless overtaking at high speed, overloading by motorcyclist, failure to put on crash helmets and drink-driving situations.
Meanwhile a total 216 netted by police for drink-driving related offences of these ninety-two drivers where for last weekend and according to Kananura they will be committed to court today to answer charges of drink-driving. While before last weekend, 124 suspects were also apprehended for a similar offence and where all aligned to court.
Kananura said that police have intensified weekend operations geared towards curbing down the crime of drink-driving because according to the 2025 Uganda Police crime report, this is the leading cause of fatal crashes in the country.