A City Shuttle bus has overturned on Kenyatta Avenue, Nairobi after colliding with a saloon car.
The injured in the Wednesday morning accident have been rushed to Kenyatta National Hospital (KNH) by the Kenya Red Cross Society. The driver of the saloon car was too traumatised and remained in the car for close to 20 minutes.
The number of those injured is yet to be established. The collision happened at the junction of Kenyatta Avenue and Muindi Mbingu Street. The bus, a 56-seater, was full to capacity. The bus has since been removed from the accident scene.
This accident comes days after a bus-truck collision at Migaa area along the infamous Nakuru-Eldoret road claimed over 30 lives and left scores others injured. In the Sunday, December 31 dawn accident, the bus belonging to Matunda Sacco was travelling from Busia to Nairobi when it collided head-on with a trailer as it tried to overtake
Among the dead were the driver of the lorry and his assistant while 30 bodies were retrieved from the ill-fated bus bringing the deaths in December from road accidents to over 100. The injured were rushed to Molo Sub-County Hospital and the Nakuru Level Five Hospital. An accident on Friday (December 29, 2017) claimed the lives of three African Independent Pentecostal Church of Africa (AIPCA) bishops in in Mwea, Kirinyaga County.
The saloon car in which the bishops were travelling in collided with another as it tried to overtake near the Wamumu Approved School on the Nairobi- Meru highway. National Transport and Safety Authority (NTSA) has come under sharp criticism for doing little to stop the incessant road accidents. On December 27, 2017, NTSA officials had to flee from the scene of an accident in Matuu town after a crowd of angry of people charged at them. They were accused of laxity in dealing with the carelessness an impunity that cost most lives.
On a fateful day, a 52-seater bus licensed to operate under a Githurai-based Sacco overturned killing five. A statement from the road safety authority would, however, absolve its officers of the accusations arguing they had relocated to a different place to carry out another operation.
Credit: Standard media
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