Source: Jordan Times, AmmanSept.存倉 04--AMMAN -- Five people, including a two-year-old child, were killed late Tuesday night in a traffic accident near the capital's Sweileh neighbourhood, official sources said.The accident, which occurred on the Safout road and involved two vehicles, left four other passengers injured, a Civil Defence Department (CDD) official said.A spokesperson for the Central Traffic Department told The Jordan Times that wrongful overtaking by the driver of a vehicle heading from the Baqaa Refugee Camp to Sweileh caused the accident."The driver lost control of his vehicle, slammed the street divider and crossed into the opposite lane, colliding head-on with a car coming from the other direction," the traffic official said.The accident caused the death of five of the seven occupants of the vehicle that迷你倉was heading down to Baqaa Refugee Camp from Sweileh.The remaining two passengers were listed in critical condition, according to the official, who preferred anonymity."This is a tragic road accident; it claimed the lives of five people from the same family," the traffic official said.This is the second road accident to claim the lives of five people in less than a week in the Kingdom.On Saturday, officials said that five people were killed in two separate accidents in the Governorate of Mafraq, some 80km northeast of the capital.One accident was the cause of a head-on collision and left four dead, while the second claimed the life of a 60-year-old Saudi man.Copyright: ___ (c)2013 the Jordan Times (Amman, Jordan) Visit the Jordan Times (Amman, Jordan) at .jordantimes.com Distributed by MCT Information Services自存倉
- Sep 06 Fri 2013 02:12
Five family members killed in road accident
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