One person has died while two others were critically injured in a grisly road accident in Machakos county.
The woman died on the spot after the motor vehicle, a saloon car they were travelling in, got involved in an accident along the Thika – Garissa highway in Yatta subcounty on Sunday morning.
Eyewitnesses said the car, which plunged into the Yatta canal, had three occupants: two female passengers and a male driver during the incident.
The deceased woman was still stuck in the wreckage by press time.
“The car was headed towards Kithimani general direction from Matuu when the accident happened. The deceased, who is a female adult, is still stuck in the wreckage while the two injured occupants have been rushed to a private hospital within Kithimani Township,” an eyewitness told the Star shortly after the incident occurred.
Residents joined police officers in the rescue mission to remove the woman’s body from the wreckage.
The wreckage was still inside the Yatta canal, where it had plunged into by press time.
The incident happened hours after three people died in another accident along the Nairobi–Mombasa highway interchange in Athi River, same Machakos county on Saturday.
The trio died on the spot after a truck they were travelling in rammed into the wall of the Mombasa–Namanga Road interchange in Athi River on Saturday.
Eyewitnesses said the truck’s driver lost control before it rammed into the wall a few metres from Shalom Community Hospital.
“The driver of the lorry lost control at the Mombasa–Namanga Road interchange. It hit the wall, leading to the fatal injury of the driver and his two passengers,” a resident, Titus Kibicho, said.
Kibicho told reporters that the driver sustained head injuries, leading to his death.
Officers from Athi River Police Station responded to the scene and moved the bodies to the mortuary.
The wreckage was towed to Athi River Police Station pending inspection.
Members of the public helped police retrieve the bodies that were stuck inside the truck’s cabin.
The incident occurred barely three days after a man died after being run over by a speeding vehicle on the same Namanga Road, near KCB in Kitengela, Kajiado County.
On July 15, a lorry was torched by irate residents after it killed a mother and child along the same road on the outskirts of Kitengela town.
Isinya Subcounty Police Commander Simon Lokitari said the two were aboard a motorcycle when the accident occurred.
They died on the spot, while the vehicle’s driver sustained serious injuries after being physically assaulted by irate members of the public.
The boda boda rider disappeared into the crowd.
The public has since called on KeNHA to erect speed bumps at the scene where the incident happened.
Lokitari told the Star that he had spoken to KeNHA officials about the public concerns.
“KeNHA officials said they would visit the scene and either erect speed bumps or put road signage,” Lokitari said.
KeNHA was installing signage at the site where the mother and child were killed.
