A gruesome head-on-collision of two trucks on the Mombasa- Nairobi highway resulted in the death of two people.
The accident, which occurred at 10.00 a.m on Sunday, April 5, happened at Kwa King'ee area between Salama and Sultan Hamud on the Nairobi-Mombasa highway.
The two casualties were passengers in the truck headed to Mombasa with the driver sustaining severe injuries in the ensuing crash.
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It took traffic police hours to remove the trapped driver in the Mombasa-bound vehicle.
Both drivers were subsequently taken to Machakos Level 5 Hospital with the Nairobi-bound driver escaping with only minor injuries.
According to one of the witnesses, Joshua Muli speaking to the Standard on Sunday, April 4, a loud bang alerted hi of the accident after which he rushed to the scene,
Muli, however, blamed the authorities for taking too much time extracting the injured from the trucks which led to the two deaths.
"It's hours and police are only making phone calls. I have not seen any intervention to save lives here," stated Muli.\
Muli provided that the scene of the accident was a blind spot following another accident on Thursday, April 2 in which one person died.
As per a report by the World Health Organisation, between 3000 and 13,000 Kenyans lose their lives to road accidents each year. Nearly one-third of these deaths involved passengers.
Current statistics from the National Transport and Safety Authority reported that by March 4, 595 people had lost their lives to road accidents.
This was an increase from the same period of 2019 in which 546 people had lost their lives.
