Monday, September 6, 2010

Kenyan roads claim more lives

Written By:KBC reporters, Posted: Mon, Sep 06, 2010

Three members of one family were among five people who perished in a grisly road accident along the Nairobi-Nakuru Highway after their car collided with a public service vehicle.

Ten other passengers, four of them in critical condition were admitted to the Naivasha District Hospital where they are receiving treatment.

The couple together with their son are said to have been travelling from Nakuru where they had gone to visit relatives. The driver of the public service vehicle (matatu) and a passenger died on the spot.

Eye witnesses say the driver of the matatu was attempting to overtake a truck when he rammed onto the oncoming vehicle.

It took police and members of the public over an hour to retrieve the body of the driver from the mangled wreck.

In a separate incident, two highway patrol police officers perished in a grisly road accident near Thika town along the Thika- Sagana Highway.

Thika OCPD Paul Leting said the officers from Kiambu were on patrol when the driver lost control while trying to avoid hitting another vehicle and hit a tree.

In yet another incident a primary school pupil died while five others sustained serious injuries when a van ploughed onto them at Nkubu town along the Meru-Chuka Highway.

The children, five of them from the same family were crossing the section of the road opposite Consolata Mission Hospital, Nkubu, headed to a nearby Church when the speeding truck ploughed onto them, killing one on the spot.

Three of the children were treated and discharged while two others and the lorry driver who sustained severe injuries are still admitted at the mission hospital in critical condition.

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