A woman who miraculously survived an accident with her 2-year-old daughter, when a trailer crushed her car in Syokimau along the Nairobi-Mombasa highway, has narrated the ordeal.
Speaking for the first time since the Saturday incident occurred, Ann Rima Gichoga credited her daughter for saving their lives.
“Were it not for my daughter, we would be dead today,” she recalled adding that the crush occurred seconds after they got out of the car.
Rima explained that she had parked her car along the service lane of the highway - her daughter in distress having been unwell.
“She usually cries a lot, and when that happens she starts throwing up so I parked the car to check up on her. And then I saw the container as it started to tip over, I didn’t even think about it, I just grabbed the child and fell out onto the side of the car.
“On looking, I saw the container on top of the car, and my legs were still inside,” she stated.
She was rushed to a nearby hospital by a taxi driver who knew her and given medicine to calm her down as she was in shock.
Her daughter was given painkillers as her hand was swollen, "I think I lay on top of her when we fell out of the vehicle onto the tarmac,” she added.
In what she termed as her saving grace, Gichoga, who has an older son, was grateful he left him behind on that fateful morning.
“We left him behind because when I leave with him he usually says I’m wasting his play time. If we had all gone then we would have died because I wouldn’t have known whom to save,” she conveyed.
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