Out Of Context: The Image Depicting The Kyaggwe Football Team’s Fans Being Involved In A Fatal Accident Is From Another Incident In 2023

An online publication dubbed Kyaggwe TV published a story on June 30th,2024 portraying an accident involving fans of the county football team (Kyaggwe football team) with a photo seemingly of the unfortunate incident. 

Since then, the story has been widely shared, especially on WhatsApp, and has raised concerns and utter grief because of the state of the cars in the image used.

Evidence

It is factual that some fans of the Kyaggwe Football team were involved in an accident on June 30th, 2024 as they were approaching Gombe town and unfortunately, two lives were lost as reported here, here, here, and here.

We examined the post by Kyaggwe TV by doing a reverse image search using Google Reverse Image Search. 

We found out that the photos that were used are of a vehicle that was involved in an accident with a trail car that happened on April 7th, 2023 on Kinoni Masaka Mbarara highway, and 9 lives were lost as reported here, here, here, and here.

The car involved in the accident is a Toyota Alphard, registration number UBL 314C, and was traveling from Kampala side heading to Mbarara, and the trailer, reg no SSD 327S/SSD 137Q, was from Mbarara/Kinoni town.

On the other hand, the car involved in the Kyaggwe football team’s fans accident is a Taxi Reg—no UBK 432M.

These two accidents occurred in two different years. However, the image used in the claim is from an accident that happened in April 2023, and yet the accident under discussion occurred in June 2024.

Verdict

Out of context, the images in the claim are not depictive of the accident involving the Kyaggwe football team but another accident that happened almost a year ago, (2023).

This fact-check was written by Zam Nakityo, a trainee under the Debunk Media Initiative’s Fact-Checking Masterclass, sub-edited by Reagan Kiyimba, and edited by Rukia Nabbanja