A speeding vehicle with two occupants plunged into the Indian Ocean, at Old Kilifi Ferry Channel on Tuesday night, May 13.
A video seen by Kenyans.co.ke, shows eyewitnesses narrating that the vehicle's brakes failed with the driver losing control and plunging into the ocean.
However, the two survived the scare as the passenger jumped off the vehicle midway and the driver followed suit before the vehicle sunk.
"We saw the vehicle plunge into the Ocean, after the driver lost control, and my friend and I rushed to for a nearby boat to rescue the occupants.
"The vehicle was speeding and we saw one occupant jump from it while it was still on the road. We rescued the other one after we dived in and both of them were rushed to the hospital," one of the first eyewitnesses narrated.
As the residents waited for emergency workers to pull out the vehicle, local divers set out to locate it.
"The divers have located the vehicle and its stuck in the mud. The divers have managed to tie it and are waiting for the firefighters to retrieve it," another ey witness stated as the divers stated that it was 12 feet deep.
In December 2019, the Kenya Ferry Services (KFS) conducted a retrieval mission at the Likoni Ferry Channel after a driver allegedly committed suicide by plunging his vehicle into the Indian Ocean.
On Sunday, September 29, 2019, the country was engulfed with sadness when Miriam Kigenda and her daughter Amanda Mutheu drowned in the Indian Ocean after their vehicle slid off the ramp of a ferry on the Likoni Channel.
It would take rescuers, the Kenya Navy and Subsea Services of South Africa nearly two weeks (13 days) to retrieve the wreckage of the car and their bodies from the ocean.
Two months later, a leaked letter to Transport CS James Macharia exposed the rot at KFS before the tragedy occurred as President Uhuru Kenyatta fired officials.
Watch the video below:
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