{"id":114282,"date":"2025-04-28T08:04:06","date_gmt":"2025-04-28T08:04:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/index.php\/2025\/04\/28\/cane-hauler-runs-over-a-motorcyclist-and-pillion-rider-in-miwani\/"},"modified":"2025-04-28T08:04:06","modified_gmt":"2025-04-28T08:04:06","slug":"cane-hauler-runs-over-a-motorcyclist-and-pillion-rider-in-miwani","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/cane-hauler-runs-over-a-motorcyclist-and-pillion-rider-in-miwani\/","title":{"rendered":"Cane hauler runs over a motorcyclist and pillion rider in Miwani"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>KISUMU, Kenya, Apr 28 \u2014 Police in Kisumu\u2019s Muhoroni sub-county have opened a probe into a Sunday night incident that saw a cane hauler crush to death a motorcyclist and his pillion passenger in the Miwani area.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The truck was ferrying cane to a nearby milling factory.<\/p>\n<p>According to an eyewitness, the truck driver fled the scene immediately after the 9 pm incident.<\/p>\n<p>John Otieno, a resident of Miwani, told the media the motorcyclist rammed into the truck in the dark as it had no lights.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMost of these trucks operate at night without functional lights,\u201d said Otieno.<\/p>\n<p>Otieno said the two died on the spot after the truck ran over them.<\/p>\n<p>Cases of accidents involving trucks ferrying cane are on the rise within the cane belt.<\/p>\n<p>The bodies are preserved at the Jaramogi Oginga Odinga Teaching and Referral Hospital mortuary, pending postmortem examinations while police sought the driver to aid in the investigation.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KISUMU, Kenya, Apr 28 \u2014 Police in Kisumu\u2019s Muhoroni sub-county have opened a probe into a Sunday night incident that saw a cane hauler crush to death a motorcyclist and his pillion passenger in the Miwani area. The truck was ferrying cane to a nearby milling factory. According to an eyewitness, the truck driver fled [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-114282","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114282","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=114282"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114282\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=114282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=114282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=114282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}