There was an unusual snarl-up along Thika Road on the morning of Tuesday, October 7 after a personal car overturned along the busy highway.
The vehicle overturned at the Roasters area, which has become increasingly notorious for such incidents.
Images obtained by Kenyans.co.ke show the overturned vehicle lying in the middle of the highway, completely blocking a section of the busy highway.
Police officers were immediately deployed to the scene to redirect traffic, with one of the exits experiencing considerable congestion as a result.
While the exact cause of the accident is yet to be established, preliminary reports suggest that the vehicle lost control, veered off its lane and landed on the main highway below.
There were no fatalities at the time of publication of this article.
The Roasters area has become notorious for vehicles rolling over with the latest incident ,coming just weeks after a lorry loaded with murram rolled over near the GSU Headquarters.
Several weeks earlier, in July, another vehicle veered off the exit, leapt over the guard rails and landed in a similar spot on the main highway.
The car was badly mangled on the front passenger side, suggesting that it had been travelling at a relatively high speed when the accident occurred.
In the wake of a spate of accidents in recent weeks, the Road Safety Association of Kenya has called for the revocation of all driving licenses issued by the National Transport and Safety Authority (NTSA) in the past six years.
Through the national chairperson, David Kiarie, the group claimed that most licenses issued during that period were given to people who did not attend driving school and just paid for them.
Kiarie 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.
