{"id":7328,"date":"2024-12-18T11:39:44","date_gmt":"2024-12-18T08:39:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.magaripoa.com\/?p=7328"},"modified":"2024-12-18T11:39:44","modified_gmt":"2024-12-18T08:39:44","slug":"driver-engaged-front-gear-instead-reverse-injuring-bungoma-county-woman-rep-catherine-wambirianga-in-car-accident","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.magaripoa.com\/gari\/driver-engaged-front-gear-instead-reverse-injuring-bungoma-county-woman-rep-catherine-wambirianga-in-car-accident\/","title":{"rendered":"Driver engaged front gear instead reverse injuring Bungoma county woman rep Catherine Wambirianga in car accident"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;color: #000000\">Bungoma county woman representative and seven other people were seriously injured during an accident on the last day of campaigns for the Kabuchai parliamentary by-elections.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;color: #000000\">Catherine Wambilianga was injured at the home of Ford Kenya aspirant Majimbo Kalasinga in Sikusi when a vehicle that was part of their entourage lost control and rammed into them as they were receiving party leader Moses Wetangula.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;color: #000000\">\u201cThe vehicle belonging to Chwele MCA Barasa Mukhongo lost control and rammed into the crowd,&#8221; said an eye witness.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;color: #000000\">&#8220;I think the driver wanted to engage a reverse a gear but accidentally engaged front gear instead.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;color: #000000\">Wamblianga sustained a broken limb but successfully underwent surgery at the Bungoma Life Care Hospital.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;color: #000000\">Her communication officer Fred Sanane told the star that she was stable after the surgery.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;color: #000000\">\u201cYes mama was involved in a small accident but she is currently in a stable condition,&#8221; he said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;color: #000000\">She is said to have suffered two fractures on her leg.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;color: #000000\">Source: <a style=\"color: #000000\" href=\"https:\/\/www.the-star.co.ke\/counties\/western\/2021-03-02-bungoma-woman-rep-7-others-injured-in-accident-during-campaign-trail\/\"><strong>Star<\/strong><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bungoma county woman representative and seven other people were seriously injured during an accident on the last day of campaigns for the Kabuchai parliamentary by-elections. &nbsp; &nbsp; Catherine Wambilianga was injured at the home of Ford Kenya aspirant Majimbo Kalasinga in Sikusi when a vehicle that was part of their entourage lost control and rammed&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7332,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[7,1905,1975],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7328","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog","category-news","category-road-safety"],"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pej6K6-1Uc","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.magaripoa.com\/gari\/wp-content\/uploads\/00f4fd3d-fc51-4a81-a38d-b0cf3dc3d641.jpeg?fit=1920%2C1440&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.magaripoa.com\/gari\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7328","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.magaripoa.com\/gari\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.magaripoa.com\/gari\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.magaripoa.com\/gari\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.magaripoa.com\/gari\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7328"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.magaripoa.com\/gari\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7328\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.magaripoa.com\/gari\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7332"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.magaripoa.com\/gari\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.magaripoa.com\/gari\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.magaripoa.com\/gari\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}