11 killed in two separate road accidents on Monday night
By Barack Oduor |
Ten people were killed in an accident involving five vehicles, including two lorries, in the Salama area on the Nairobi-Mombasa highway.
Eleven people were killed in two different accidents on Monday night.
Ten people were killed in an accident involving five vehicles, including two lorries, in the Salama area on the Nairobi-Mombasa highway at around 8 pm while a student of Chavakali Boys High School was killed in a bus that was ferrying students from school on the Kisumu-Kakamega Highway.
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In the Salama accident, an 18-seater matatu registered to Spanish Sacco, a 14-seater matatu registered to NAEKANA Sacco, two trucks and a saloon car were travelling through Mlima Kiu area, a notorious black spot, when the accident occurred at 8.30 pm, Mukaa Sub-County Police Commander Barnabas Ng'eno said.
The police report indicates that the accident that occurred at Mlima Kiu, happened when an Isuzu vehicle, being driven from Nairobi towards Mombasa, failed to keep its proper traffic line, and collided with another motor vehicle.
The impact of the crash triggered another wave of collisions involving the other vehicles.
"Those seriously injured have been rushed to Sultan Hamud Hospital. All the other vehicles except the offending Isuzu vehicle were heading towards the Nairobi general direction," reads part of the police report.
Police said they will announce the names of the victims even as they seek to release further statements on the grisly crash.
Kisumu crash
In the Chavakali Boys High School bus accident, the injured were rushed to Jaramogi Oginga Odinga Teaching and Referral Hospital in Kisumu for treatment.
The police say the bus was ferrying the students to Nairobi following the closure of schools for the first term.
According to eyewitnesses, the driver lost control at the Mamboleo roundabout in Kisumu.
Nyanza Regional Traffic Commander, Allan Mwangi, said they have launched a manhunt for the driver of the bus for questioning as part of the probe into the accident.
He said the driver seemed to have been negotiating the roundabout when he lost control of the bus, hit the guard rail and landed on the edge of the road.
It was then that the 17-year-old student died on the spot, witnesses said.
Mwangi added that other students sustained soft injuries and were in stable condition in hospital.
"The parents and guardians of some students have arrived and are attending to them. They are traumatised but they are safe," he said.
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