A truck transporting tonnes of fish on Friday overturned and shed its load along the Nairobi-Nakuru Highway causing traffic disruption.
In a video circulating online, area residents could be seen scrambling for the fish which was packed in several crates.
Some ran away with the crates as others scooped the fish into bags and any other portable objects that could carry them.
Motorists were not excluded from the rampage as some parked their motorbikes and cars by the roadside, opened their boots and bags, and dumped the fish inside.
Police officers were conspicuously absent from the accident scene as the residents walked away with the sea animals of unsubstantiated amounts.
Reports, nonetheless, indicated that they had not been deployed by the time of publishing this article.
Eyewitnesses also claimed that the accident occurred far away from a section of the highway where traffic officers were based.
The number of casualties in the accident was yet to be ascertained. No company has also yet claimed ownership of the cargo which was plundered by residents struggling to survive amid tough economic times.
Cases of passers-by and residents plundering cargo from vehicles involved in accidents have been on the rise. In December last year, Nakuru residents stole maize from a trailer that had crashed into a matatu with passengers at Eveready Roundabout.
Rather than rescue the injured in the accident which claimed seven lives, the residents and other road users broke into the trailer to escape with the goods.
In a similar incident in May last year, a traffic snarl-up was witnessed along the Eastern Bypass after a trailer carrying crates of soda overturned.
The driver who narrowly escaped with minor injuries helplessly watched as Kenyans made away with the loot.
