Motorists planning to use Mombasa Road have been advised to use the Machakos-Wote-Makindu route after the Sultan Hamud bridge was swept away.
The bridge was completely submerged after River Sultan Hamud broke its banks on Saturday morning.
County Commissioner Maalim Mohammed stated that heavy downpour experienced on Friday also rendered a section of the road impassable.
Affected motorists and passengers spent the night on the road following an 18-hour traffic jam.
Mukaa OCPD Charles Muthui blamed the snarl up on inpatient motorists who attempted to evade the jam by overtaking from the wrong lanes.
"Vehicles that attempted to evade the snarl-up by driving on the wrong lanes made the jam worse," Mukaa OCPD Charles Muthui stated.
[caption caption="Bus rams into a lorry on Mombasa Road"]
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A Nairobi-bound bus that was attempting to evade the jam slightly rammed a lorry at Matiliku shopping centre however none of the passengers were injured.
A crane that attempted to recover a lorry that had overturned near Salama shopping centre also overturned.
Last weekend, motorists spent more than six hours in traffic after a lorry transporting sand broke down at Malili shopping centre on Mombasa-Nairobi Highway.
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