{"id":3711,"date":"2026-04-18T16:30:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-18T14:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.zanis.gov.zm\/?p=3711"},"modified":"2026-04-18T15:58:23","modified_gmt":"2026-04-18T13:58:23","slug":"zambezi-man-dies-in-horrific-motorcycle-accident","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zanis.gov.zm\/?p=3711","title":{"rendered":"ZAMBEZI MAN DIES IN HORRIFIC MOTORCYCLE ACCIDENT"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">A 26-year-old man in Zambezi District has died after being involved in a horrific motorcycle accident right at the entrance of the Zambezi District Hospital.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">The deceased, identified as Blessings Chinyama, met his fate yesterday in a freak accident involving two motorcycles and an oxcart.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">According to an eyewitness, Dennis Kawembo, Mr Chinyama was riding his motorbike when he encountered an oncoming oxcart and moved to the side of the road to allow it passage.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">However, in the process of maneuvering, he lost control and had a head-on collision with another motorcycle that was coming from the opposite direction.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">&nbsp;The impact of the crash threw Mr Chinyama forward, and the other motorcycle subsequently landed on him, causing fatal injuries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Zambezi District Health Director (DHD), Digani Daka, confirmed the incident and expressed deep sadness over the incident, describing the loss of such a young life as a tragedy that could have been avoided.   <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A 26-year-old man in Zambezi District has died after being involved in a horrific motorcycle accident right at the entrance of the Zambezi District Hospital. The deceased, identified as Blessings Chinyama, met his fate yesterday in a freak accident involving two motorcycles and an oxcart. According to an eyewitness, Dennis Kawembo, Mr Chinyama was riding [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":3710,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3711","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-law-and-order","entry","has-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zanis.gov.zm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3711","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zanis.gov.zm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zanis.gov.zm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanis.gov.zm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanis.gov.zm\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3711"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanis.gov.zm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3711\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3712,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanis.gov.zm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3711\/revisions\/3712"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanis.gov.zm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3710"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zanis.gov.zm\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanis.gov.zm\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanis.gov.zm\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}