Train Hits Oil Tanker in Nairobi's Pipeline Estate

One person was injured on Wednesday morning after a train hit an oil tanker near Pipeline Estate in Nairobi, leading to a major traffic snarl up along Outering Road.

Details of the accident are not yet clear but sources on the ground indicate the tanker was trying to manoeuvre its way past the railway crossing when the train rammed into it.

Luckily, no lives were lost but the accident resulted in heavy traffic for the better part of the morning.

In 2013, 12 people died after a train crashed into a bus at a busy level crossing in Nairobi’s Umoja estate, calling attention to dangerous unmanned railway crossings.

The bus driver is said to have ignored the blaring horn from the approaching train, which smashed into the vehicle and pushed it along the tracks for nearly 200 meters.

Here is the photo of the scene of the accident on Wednesday morning.

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