A driver drove right into a supermarket at the Ola Petrol station near ABC place Nairobi causing damage of unknown value.
The shocking incident which occurred on Saturday night, March 20, saw the Toyota saloon car ram the building - and going right through.
The impact sent items flying off the shelves and left shards of glass all over the floor with shocked attendants left to witness the mess. No casualties were reported in the incident.
Kenyans called out the driver, alleged to have been driving under the influence, on social media for the rogue behavior with many asking the authorities to take action.
“@ntsa_kenya please revoke his driving license and charge him according to those traffic acts,” said a Kenyan by the name Collins Gichuki.
“My thoughts and prayers are with his insurance company,” stated Kogi wa Kariuki.
On Monday, March 15, Former Kiambu Governor Ferdinand Waititu's son Brian Ndung'u, was sentenced to serve 3 months in jail, or pay a fine of Ksh30,000 after he was found guilty of driving under the influence.
The court heard that Ndung'u was arrested in the wee hours of Monday morning on Nairobi's Muindi Mbingu street by police officers on patrol. Police said that Ndung'u was evidently drunk.
Judge Kimilu ordered the 25-year-old law student at the Strathmore University to pay Ksh30,000 fine or face three months in jail.
Kenya’s National Transport and Safety Authority (NTSA) estimates that 3,000 Kenyans die from road accidents every year - costing the country anywhere between 3-5 per cent of GDP.
According to NTSA, 83 per cent of the fatalities are men, with individuals aged between 30-34 years leading most at risk.
In addition, most of the accidents occur over the weekends, with the hours 5PM-8AM being particularly deadly.
In 2019, commercial vehicles, private cars and motorcycles accounted for over two-thirds of road accident fatalities.
In the same year, data from the Association of Kenya Insurers (AKI) revealed that 70 per cent of the 36 companies that underwrote motor policies made losses.
Driving under the influence is the offense of being in control of a vehicle while impaired by alcohol or other drugs, to a level that it renders the driver incapable of operating a motor vehicle safely.
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