In a succinct obituary, Kyenjojo Grade I Magistrate Ms. Faith Irene Kwagala announced that her husband, Raphael Okiot, had perished in the crash that rocked the Entebbe-Kampala highway. 

Funeral plans, according to Ms. Kwagala, will be revealed later. 

Magistrate Kwagala's statement seemed to assuage concerns that a family may have been inside the crushed car. 

At the traffic crossroads at Nkumba University, the late Okiot had halted his sedan car, registration number UBQ 371P, when he saw the truck, registration number UAN 836B, appear to lose its brakes while going downhill.
The late Okiot had stopped his sedan vehicle registration number UBQ 371P at the Nkumba University traffic intersection when the truck registration number UAN 836B appeared to lose its brakes downhill.

While the truck was not speeding according to CCTV footage, with loss of brakes, the yet-to-be identified driver attempted to avoid ramming into the Okiot's Galant Fortis, climbing onto the island on the right.

Unfortunately, this manoeuvre failed as the truck hit the roadside barrier before overturning and crushing the Mitsubishi vehicle.

It took over an hour for police and other security agents from Special Forces Command to marshal a tow truck to pull the ill-fated concrete mixer from the wreckage of the Mitsubishi that it had almost pulverised.

Police have yet to release a statement on the fatal crash.

The late Okiot was a lawyer by profession. He has been a teaching assistant at the Law School of his alma mater, Uganda Christian University, in Mukono.