A tragic road accident along the busy Nakuru-Nairobi Highway claimed two more lives at Nyakairu on Saturday, March 1.
In a statement after the accident on Saturday night, the St John Ambulance Kenya revealed that the crash occurred in the Nyakairu area of the highway.
Reportedly, twelve more people were injured in the accident that involved a lorry and two personal cars. The injured were rushed to Naivasha General Hospital for specialised care.
"Two people lost their lives, and twelve others were injured in a road crash at Nyakairu along the Nakuru-Nairobi Highway. The accident involved a lorry and two personal cars," part of the statement read.
"St John Ambulance Kenya's Kinungi Community First Responders provided timely First Aid support. The injured were rushed to Naivasha General Hospital."
Images of the accident's aftermath shared by St John Ambulance showed the wreckages of the three vehicles with onlookers gawking at the tragic scene.
This accident comes just a few days after Four people died, and 56 others were left injured in another road crash at the Ogona Area of the Londiani-Muhoroni Highway.
The Monday night accident happened when a passenger bus from Climax Sacco, which was heading to Nairobi, collided with a truck heading towards Muhoroni.
Reportedly, the bus lost control and swerved off the road, landing on a nearby sugarcane plantation.
"The bus veered off the road on the left side as one faces the Londiani direction, into a sugarcane farm," the police report revealed.
The bodies of four who died on the spot, three women and a man, were taken to St. Vincent de Paul Hospital Mortuary for identification and autopsy.
A day later, a Pick-up ferrying 24 church members overturned, killing one of the churchgoers and leaving 15 others injured.
The tragic accident occured in the Malongo Village of Suba South Constituency in Homa Bay County when the team was heading to Suba Sub-County Hospital in Sindo to collect the body of a fellow church member in preparation for burial.
