Road crashes claim three lives
A mangled wreckage of one of the 17 vehicles that was involved in a multiple accident at Rungiri area in Kikuyu on January 9, 2013. The accident at Rungiri near Kikuyu Town left two people injured, according to witnesses but police said one person was slightly hurt. PHOTO/BILLY MUTAI.
What you need to know:
- In the Naromoru accident, two people died when a car they were travelling in rammed a lorry that had broken down.
- In Ruiru, a pedestrian died after he was knocked down by a presidential escort minibus at Gwa Kairu.
- In Kiambu County, police are looking for a driver who fled after his trailer rammed a vehicle in an accident involving 17 others on the Nairobi-Nakuru highway Wednesday.
Three people died and four others were injured in accidents in Naromoru and Ruiru on Wednesday evening.
Area police boss Ephantus Kiura said in the Naromoru accident, two people died when a car they were travelling in rammed a lorry that had broken down.
Four passengers in the car sustained serious head injuries and were taken to Cortage Hospital.
In Ruiru, a pedestrian died after he was knocked down by a presidential escort minibus at Gwa Kairu.
The body was taken to Thika Level 5 Hospital for a post-mortem examination and identification.
Meanwhile, a woman was Wednesday sentenced to three months in prison by a Nyeri court for speeding.
Ms Upson Deirdre was arrested by highway patrol officers while driving at 108 kilometres per hour on the Kiganjo-Nanyuki road.
Nyeri resident magistrate Vincent Nyakundi heard that the speed limit on that stretch is 100 km per hour.
Ms Deirdre told the court she was rushing to Wilson Airport to catch a plane.
“I thought the speed limit was 110 km per hour. I was on my way to the airport to catch a plane and I was late,” she told the magistrate.
Prosecutor Stanselous Mwangi told the court that Ms Deirdre did not have a criminal record and asked the court to treat her as a first offender.
She was offered an alternative of a Sh30,000 fine.
In Kiambu County, police are looking for a driver who fled after his trailer rammed a vehicle in an accident involving 17 others on the Nairobi-Nakuru highway Wednesday.
The accident at Rungiri near Kikuyu Town left two people injured, according to witnesses but police said one person was slightly hurt.
Kikuyu police boss Mutune Maweo said the trailer driver’s brakes could have failed, resulting in the multiple vehicle accident.
“I had just come from witnessing the first accident which involved three vehicles a few meters from here when I saw the truck hit a small vehicle and drag it for a short distance and as the other drivers panicked and attempted to escape, the vehicles rammed onto each other,” said a witness Mr Joseph Kariuki.
He added that he saw two people with injuries while the others luckily escaped unhurt adding the vehicle which was hit by the trailer was thrown in the air due to impact.
Several wreckages of the vehicles including the trailer were dragged to Kikuyu police station.
