{"id":66747,"date":"2018-12-03T23:59:39","date_gmt":"2018-12-03T22:59:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=66747"},"modified":"2018-12-04T00:00:42","modified_gmt":"2018-12-03T23:00:42","slug":"2-dead-14-injured-in-kano-auto-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=66747","title":{"rendered":"2 dead, 14 injured in Kano auto crash"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Two persons were on Monday confirmed dead while 14 others sustained injuries after two vehicles collided at Garo along the ever-busy Kano-Gwarzo road.<\/p>\n

Mr Kabiru Ibrahim, spokesman of the Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Kano that the accident occurred at about 08:15am.<\/p>\n

\u201cOn receiving the information, we quickly dispatched our personnel and vehicle to the scene of the incident to rescue the victims,\u201d Ibrahim said.<\/p>\n

He said two vehicles, a bus with registration number XA 999 TSF and a Honda Accord car from opposite direction collided.<\/p>\n

Ibrahim attributed the accident which involved 16 persons to speed limit violation which he said led to loss of control by the drivers.<\/p>\n

He said the FRSC personnel took the victims to a nearby hospital in Kano where the doctor on duty confirmed two dead while the remaining 14 victims were currently receiving treatment.<\/p>\n

Ibrahim appealed to motorists to obey traffic regulations so as to stay alive and minimise accidents on the road.\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Two persons were on Monday confirmed dead while 14 others sustained injuries after two vehicles collided at Garo along the ever-busy Kano-Gwarzo road. Mr Kabiru Ibrahim, spokesman of the Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Kano that the accident occurred at about 08:15am. \u201cOn receiving the information, we […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8250,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[5192,49],"class_list":["post-66747","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-accident","tag-kano"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66747","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=66747"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66747\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8250"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=66747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=66747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=66747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}