14 people were confirmed dead in a grisly road accident along the Kitale-Webuye highway on Friday.
This is after a Nissan matatu collided head-on with a tractor ferrying sugarcane at the Kamukuya Bridge blackspot.
All the occupants of the matatu died on the spot.
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In December 2017, 14 people were killed at the same spot in an accident that involved a tractor, a Public Service Vehicle and three saloon cars.
Residents of the area had urged relevant authorities to erect bumps along the road.
Last week, the National Transport Safety Authority noted that the number of road fatalities had gone down in the past five months.
The agency's deputy director in charge of safety Duncan Kibogong stated that the decrease was recorded between January 1 and May 14.
There were 1,095 incidents compared to 1,139 in the same study period last year.
"Road accidents have gone down by 3.9 percent. But still no person should die; the death of one is too many," Dr Kibogong remarked during a road safety workshop at Strathmore Business School in Nairobi.
He added that the number of people injured or killed in road crashes is 4,193, down from 4,676 recorded in 2017.
The statistics also showed that the number of people, mostly pedestrians, dying daily in road crashes is around eight.
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