Passengers in a matatu belonging to the Rembo Shuttle Sacco were trapped inside the bus after it was involved in an accident along Mombasa Road.
The Friday, March 18, accident left scores injured and two others enmeshed in the bus. It took the efforts of the police and members of the public to rescue them.
Police had a difficult time pulling out one of the two passengers who was trapped in the driver's cabin. They established that her legs were trapped by the dashboard.
Rescuers resolved to use metal bars to pull out the woman. The painful ordeal left her screaming in pain as the rescue team worked to get her out of the vehicle.
Eventually, the two trapped passengers were rescued and rushed to the Shalom Community Hospital in Athi River.
Witnesses told the press that the Rembo Shuttle Sacco bus, that was heading to Nairobi from Kitengela, hastily overtook another vehicle and rammed into a lorry ferrying sand near Sabaki estate in Athi River.
The accident resulted in a heavy traffic jam that extended for a kilometre beyond the Athi River interchange.
Elsewhere, another matatu overturned at Globe Roundabout in Ngara, Nairobi. The 14 seater minibus overturned after hitting a vehicle that was ahead of it.
Mombasa Road was ranked as the third most dangerous road by the National Transport and Safety Authority (NTSA). The authority released a report which highlighted the most dangerous roads in the city.
According to the NTSA, Outering Road was the most dangerous roadway in Nairobi with the recorded number of fatal accidents standing at 44.
Waiyaki Way followed with 38 fatalities in 2021 while Northern Bypass and Mombasa Road were joint third with 29 accident cases each.
The NTSA report indicated that Southern Bypass had 28 fatalities and this made it the fourth most dangerous road in Nairobi County while the Eastern Bypass recorded 27 road crashes to wrap up the top five.
Thika Superhighway came in sixth with NTSA stating that it had 25 fatalities. Kangundo Road was listed seventh with 23 fatalities.
