Two people were killed and several others injured after a Kenya Bus Service (KBS) bus rammed into eight other vehicles on Tuesday evening.
Witness accounts revealed that the accident occurred after the KBS bus driver reportedly lost control and hit a pedestrian then rammed into the other vehicles.
A Loreto Convent Valley Road school bus was also hit by the bus during the accident which happened along Haile Selassie Avenue.
A statement issued by St. John Ambulance Kenya stated that eighteen casualties were rushed to Nairobi Hospital while one other patient was taken to Kenyatta National Hospital.
Road accidents in Kenya are a source of concern both locally and worldwide with the high personal costs that each person pays whenever an accident occurs, which sometimes include loss of life, there is a high economic cost associated with road accidents.
Most road accident in Kenya involves pedestrians and they constitute the largest number at 39 percent of fatalities which occur both in designated and in non-designated places.
Second to pedestrians, passengers constitute the highest number of fatalities on Kenyan roads with deaths attributed to the higher representation of passengers carried by vehicles as compared to drivers.
Drivers are a key cause of road accidents, they are not spared from fatal consequences in the event of accidents with statistics showing that 12 percent of all accidents affect drivers.
Motorbikes have become a very popular means of passenger transport in Kenya due to their speed, flexibility and versatility cause 18 percent fatalities on the roads.
Pedal cyclists account for 3 percent of fatalities countrywide.
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