Four people died in a road accident involving three vehicles at the Eveready roundabout in Nakuru.
According to reports, eighteen others were badly injured in the accident which involved a police truck, a trailer and a 14-seater-matatu.
Rift Valley Traffic Commandant Ziro Arome, who confirmed the accident, stated that the injured were admitted to at the Nakuru Level Five Hospital.
"Two prison warders died at the scene while two others died while undergoing treatment at the health facility," he stated.
Arome further noted that two among those receiving treatment were in critical condition.
Two of those who died on the spot were Kenya Prisons warders while the other two casualties died while undergoing treatment at the Nakuru Level Five hospital.
By August 13, some 1,859 people had died in road crashes while in 2017, 1,760 people were killed according to National Transport and Safety Authority statistics.
Pedestrians remained the most vulnerable accounting for 709 recorded deaths in 2018 while in the same period, 420 passengers were killed, as well as 340 motorcyclists, 190 drivers and 164 motorcycle passengers.
The data showed that there was a 6.8 per cent increase in the number of pedestrians killed - from 664 in 2017 to 709 - as well as a 15 per cent increment for motorcyclists and 18 per cent for pillion passengers.
Comparisons for August 2017 and 2018 indicated that 228 fatalities had been recorded that month alone as opposed to 122 in the same month last year.
The number of those seriously injured had risen by 9.1 per cent (229) in 2018 to stand at 2,741, from 2,512 in 2017.
