By Yien Gattuor<\/p>\n
A tragic head-on collision involving a motorcycle and a national security service vehicle in Unity oilfield, Rubkona County, Unity State, has left a 23-year-old boy dead and another man injured.<\/strong><\/p>\n The incident occurred on Saturday, according to the traffic police authorities.<\/p>\n The deceased was only identified as John Bol.<\/p>\n Speaking to the No. 1 Citizen Daily Newspaper<\/em><\/strong> in Rubkona on Monday, the State Director of Traffic Police, Domai Dak Kai, blamed the road accident on over-speeding.<\/p>\n He said the road accident occurred between the Unity oilfields and the Rioriak Payam area.<\/p>\n “There was a national security vehicle moving in high speed from Unity Oilfield to Rioriak Payam; it was not a convoy truck, it hit the motorcycle and killed the rider, and one passenger sustained injuries,” Dak narrated the incident.<\/p>\n The traffic police officer painted the picture that the incident occurred amidst dust fumes on the road.<\/p>\n According to police, the accident happened around 10:15 p.m. Saturday night.<\/p>\n “The injured passenger is now under treatment at Bentiu State Hospital,<\/p>\n Dak disclosed that the national security vehicle driver was arrested pending investigations.<\/p>\n “After the incident, the first thing we did was arrest the suspect, and he is being detained at Bentiu police station until the investigation is completed,” Dak noted.<\/p>\n The traffic police officer extended his condolences to the victim\u2019s family and urged them to remain calm as investigations continue.<\/p>\n Dak warned drivers against over speeding.<\/p>\n He also underscored that motorcycles are only allowed to carry one passenger at a time.<\/p>\n Meanwhile, Taker Riak Koang, the chairperson of motorists in Unity State said that accidents are common between Unity Oilfield and Rioriak Payam due to over-speeding.<\/p>\n “I condemned the deaths of my colleagues who were killed by a national security vehicle in an accident on Saturday,” he said.<\/p>\n Taker is now appealing to the government of Unity State to give directives to company drivers to drive at a minimum speed while at the distance between Rioriak Payam and Unity oilfield.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" By Yien Gattuor A tragic head-on collision involving a motorcycle and a national security service vehicle in Unity oilfield, Rubkona County, Unity State, has left a 23-year-old boy dead and another man injured. The incident occurred on Saturday, according to the traffic police authorities. The deceased was only identified as[Read More…]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[79,117],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15269","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-unity-state"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15269","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15269"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15269\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15270,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15269\/revisions\/15270"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}