27 people die in fatal accident along Mombasa-Nairobi highway

The truck that was involved in an head on collision with Malindi bound bus. (Photo: Courtesy)

27 people have been confirmed dead following head on collision between Malindi bound bus and a truck at Kambu along Mombasa-Nairobi highway.The accident happened in the early morning hours around 2a.m at kambu along Mombasa-Nairobi Highway.According to the area OCPD Leonard Kimaiyo, the accident involved a bus that was bound to Malindi belonging to Buscar Company and oil tanker that was headed to Nairobi from Mombasa.

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The casualties have been taken to makindu sub_county hospital and the bodies ferried to the Makindu hospital mortuary.

We are undertaking a survey to help us improve our content for you. This will only take 1 minute of your time, please give us your feedback by clicking HERE. All responses will be confidential.</s>Photo: Tony Webster/Flickr File photo Nairobi - At least 24 people were on Monday night killed in an accident on the Mombasa-Nairobi highway. Police said several other passengers sustained serious injuries in the accident that involved a bus and a truck.

Start the conversation, or Read more at UAport.</s>NAIROBI, Kenya >> Kenyan police say 27 people have been killed in a collision between a passenger bus and a trailer truck.

Police say the accident took place along the major road linking two of Kenya’s biggest cities, capital Nairobi and the port of Mombasa.

Leornard Kimaiyo, the police chief in the Kambu area of Maukeni county, says the bus was heading to Mombasa and the trailer was going in the opposite direction when they collided on Tuesday.

Road accidents kill around 3,000 people in Kenya every year.

Deaths through road accidents have increased in recent years despite a crackdown on drunk driving, including tougher fines and breathalyzer tests at random police roadblocks.</s>NAIROBI: At least 26 people were killed and many others injured in a head-on crash between a bus and a truck on the highway between Nairobi and Kenya’s second city Mombasa, police said on Tuesday. “It was a very bad head-on collision. We lost 26 people in the accident,” Leonard Kimaiyo, police chief for the southern town of Kibwezi said. Another senior officer said the bus, heading to Mombasa, was overtaking several vehicles when it collided with an oil tanker. Kenya has a poor road safety record, with up to 3,000 people killed each year according to police. The World Health Organization puts the toll at 12,000. In December at least 40 people were killed an accident around 100 kilometers (60 miles) northwest of Nairobi, in which a tanker smashed into several other vehicles before exploding.</s>MOSCOW (Sputnik) — At least 26 people were killed and several suffered injuries in a late Monday road accident in southwestern Kenya, local media reported Tuesday.

"It was a very bad head-on collision accident," Officer Commanding Police Division (OCPD) in the Kibwezi division Leonard Kimaiyo said as quoted by the country's Capital News outlet.

The outlet cited a senior police officer as saying that a bus heading to Mombasa along the Mombasa-Nairobi highway was overtaking several vehicles when it collided with a truck.</s>The wreckage of a Buscar Bus Company passenger bus that was involved in a road accident at Kambuu area in Makueni, along the Nairobi-Mombasa highway Tuesday, April 25. 2017. Kenyan police say 27 people have been killed in a collision between a bus and a trailer truck.

Start the conversation, or Read more at Powhatan Today.</s>The grisly road accident occurred at Kambuu along the Nairobi-Mombasa highway claiming at least 26 lives.

Several other passengers were seriously injured in the accident involving a bus and a truck.

Kibwezi police boss Leonard Kimaiyo said the accident occurred when the bus en route to Mombasa tried to overtake several vehicles before colliding with the oncoming truck.

The injured were taken to Makindu Hospital for treatment.

Below are photos from the scene.</s>The wreckage of a Buscar Bus Company passenger bus that was involved in a road accident at Kambuu area in Makueni, along the Nairobi-Mombasa highway Tuesday, April 25. 2017.

Start the conversation, or Read more at MDJonline.com.</s>MOMBASA, Kenya, April 25 (Reuters) - A crash between a passenger bus and a tanker ferrying cooking oil has killed 24 people along the main highway connecting Kenya's capital, Nairobi, and the port city of Mombasa, police said on Tuesday.

The accident occurred in the Kibwezi area around midnight (2100 GMT) on Monday as the bus driver was trying to overtake another vehicle but collided with the oncoming tanker truck, Kibwezi police chief Leonard Kimaiyo told Reuters by telephone.

"Twenty adults and three children died on the spot, while one adult died later in hospital," Kimaiyo said.

The bus was heading to Mombasa from Nairobi. Kimaiyo said most of the passengers were families returning from Easter festivities and students preparing for the reopening of schools after holidays.

Another 19 people were injured. Kimaiyo said the death toll could rise. (Reporting by Joseph Akwiri; Editing by George Obulutsa and Paul Tait)</s>At least 26 people dead in Mombasa-Nairobi highway accident

At least 26 people were on Monday night killed in an accident on the Mombasa-Nairobi highway. Police said several other passengers sustained serious injuries in the accident that involved a bus and a truck.

“It was a very bad head-on collision accident,” Leonard Kimaiyo, Police chief for Kibwezi said. Those injured were taken to Makindu hospital. Another senior police officer briefed on the accident, said the bus heading to Mombasa was overtaking several vehicles when it collided with the truck.

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Inspector General of Police Joseph Boinnet too confirmed the accident, saying “24 people have been reported dead so far” before the toll rose to 26. It is the worst accident reported on Kenyan roads in the recent past.

The Orange Democratic Movement (ODM) has postponed its nominations in Nairobi county that were scheduled to start today citing unavoidable circumstances. The party will announce a later date for the primaries exercise.

The party’s director of communications Philip Etale said rowdy youths stormed the warehouse where election materials had been stored complaining that the exercise would not be transparent The irate mob blocked vehicles ferrying the voting papers forcing the Orange party to call off the primaries that left aspirants and voters a disgruntled date.

ODM’s National Elections Board Chairperson Judith Pareno described it as unfortunate given the level of preparations that had been put in place.

The High Court in Malindi has extended the deadline for party nominations from Thursday, April 27, 2017 to Monday, May 1, 2017 following a petition by a non-governmental organization.

The lobby group, Angaza Empowerment Network, through the law firm Mbugua, Atudo and Macharia advocates, filed the petition before Justice Weldon Korir who certified the application as urgent.

In an affidavit filed in a Malindi court, the organization’s director, George Miringu, said that while IEBC has the power to prescribe regulations and guidelines, it cannot override express provisions of an Act of Parliament.

In his affidavit, Mr Miringu stated that according to the constitution, party nominations are to be conducted at least 90 days to the election, putting the date of the deadline at May 7, 2017.
Twenty-seven people are killed in Kenya's Makueni County when a bus and a truck collide on the Nairobi–Mombasa Road.