A tragic road accident along the busy Nakuru-Nairobi Highway claimed two lives in the Nyakairu area on Saturday, March 1.
According to a statement from St. John Ambulance Kenya, the crash involved a lorry and two personal vehicles.
In addition to the two fatalities, twelve others sustained injuries in the accident.
The injured victims were promptly taken to Naivasha General Hospital for specialized care.
“Two people lost their lives, and twelve others were injured in a road crash at Nyakairu along the Nakuru-Nairobi Highway.
The accident involved a lorry and two personal cars,” part of the statement read.
St. John Ambulance Kenya’s Kinungi Community First Responders provided crucial first aid at the scene.
Images shared by the organization showed the wreckage of the vehicles and onlookers observing the tragic aftermath.
This incident follows another recent fatal crash on the Londiani-Muhoroni Highway.
On Monday night, a passenger bus from Climax Sacco collided with a truck, resulting in four deaths and 56 injuries.
The bus, en route to Nairobi, reportedly lost control and swerved off the road, crashing into a sugarcane plantation.
Police confirmed that the bus veered off to the left side of the road as one faces the Londiani direction.
The bodies of the four victims, three women and a man, were taken to St. Vincent de Paul Hospital Mortuary for identification and autopsy.
In a separate incident just a day later, a pick-up truck carrying 24 church members overturned in Malongo Village, Suba South Constituency, Homa Bay County.
The group was en route to Suba Sub-County Hospital in Sindo to collect the body of a fellow church member for burial preparations.
The crash killed one person and injured 15 others.
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