US Ambassador Dan Mozena narrowly escaped a road accident in Kapasia upazila in Gazipur yesterday.
The SUV he was travelling in veered off the road and got stuck on the roadside beside Lohadi High School of the upazila at 10am as its driver lost control of the steering. There was a 10-foot deep pond beside the road, said witnesses.
Mozena and the others travelling with him got down from the car. None of them were injured in the incident. They are all fine now, said Ahsan Ullah, officer-in-charge at Kapasia police station.
The US envoy was going to visit the power generation of Solar Nano Grid K1 of SOLARIC, a power generation company, in Lohadi village, he said.
A wrecker was sent to recover the vehicle, he said, adding that Mozena and his entourage visited the project via an alternative mode of transport.