By Antony Gitonga
Kinungi, Kenya: Six people including three minors died in yet another tragic road accident in Naivasha along the Nairobi-Nakuru highway.
The accident involving a Nissan matatu and a lorry occurred at the notorious Kinungi trading center 10kms from Naivasha town and left three people seriously injured.
The driver of the vehicle escaped from the scene of the accident soon after the incident which caused a major traffic snarl-up before traffic police moved in.
Incidentally, the accident happened a day after another accident occurred along the Nakuru-Eldoret road killing eleven people.
In the Naivasha accident a father and his son heading for the Easter holidays were among those who died.
Others who lost their lives were a one year old child, two teenagers and a middle aged woman who was decapitated in the early morning accident.
According to a local leader James Kabono, the Nissan matatu was heading to Nairobi from Nyahururu when the accident occurred.
Kabono said that the matatu was trying to overtake when it hit head on an incoming lorry killing the six on the spot.
“The matatu was in very high speed and it rammed head on into an incoming lorry killing the six while three were rushed to Kijabe mission hospital in critical condition,” he said.
He decried the high number of accidents on the section of the highway and called for urgent measures to address the situation.
“Over the weekend we lost three people and scores were left injured and its time we sought a lasting solution to this accidents,” he said.
A survivor Pastor Antony Njagi said that the driver had been speeding and driving dangerously all the way from Nyahururu and defied pleas to slow down.
“I had been praying all the way from Nyahururu due the manner that the car was been driven but I fell asleep and that is when the accident occurred,” he said.
Speaking on phone, Naivasha OCPD Charles Kortok confirmed the accident saying that investigations had started.
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He blamed speeding for the accident adding that they were seeking the driver of the matatu to record a statement.
The mangled wrecks were towed to Naivasha police station while the bodies are lying at the Naivasha sub county hospital mortuary.
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