Several people are feared dead following a crash involving a public service vehicle (PSV) van which rolled several times on the Malindi-Garsen road in Kilifi County on Tuesday, October 2.
According to eyewitnesses, the crash occurred in Kanagoni area after the rear tyres of the matatu burst suddenly, causing the vehicle to roll along the busy highway.
Images seen by Kenyans.co.ke, showed the extent of damage to the PSV, whose side windows from both sides were broken.
The front of the vehicle was also completely mangled, with first responders covering some of the victims of the accident.
Passengers injured in the accident were rushed to Malindi General Hospital for treatment.
This is the second fatal accident involving a PSV matatu in less than a week, coming just days after 16 people lost their lives in a deadly head-on crash on the Nairobi-Nakuru highway.
The tragic incident saw the van collide with a trailer as it attempted to overtake, leaving 14 people from the same family deceased.
Hours earlier, six people, including occupants of an ambulance, lost their lives along a few kilometres away along the same highway.
On Saturday evening, a patient, her husband, two more relatives, a nurse and the ambulance driver all succumbed in the accident that occurred near Kimende along the Nakuru-Nairobi Highway.
Stakeholders have traded blame in the wake of a spate of accidents in the country, with the Motorists Association of Kenya (MAK) calling blaming the poor state of roads for incidents, rather than human error.
The Road Safety Association of Kenya, meanwhile, called for the revocation of all driving licenses issued by the National Transport and Safety Authority (NTSA) in the past six years.
The association's national chairperson, David Kiariea accused the regulatory authority of selling licences for Ksh6,000. He cited a fatal accident that left 16 people dead as an example, arguing that if the Subaru driver had been properly trained, he would have yielded to the matatu, preventing the collision with the lorry.
