Accident involved a commuter bus with 55 passengers and a trailer

A bus and trailer have been involved in an accident on the notorious Salgaa black spot on the morning of Friday November 24.

In the 5am incident, the bus from Kampala was involved in a head of collision with a trailer as the driver attempted to overtake at a near exact spot where an earlier dawn accident claimed the lives of 12 people.

The accident has left the driver of the bus dead as passengers with injuries have been rushed to Moi Teaching and Referral Hospital in Eldoret for treatment.

“It was drizzling in the morning and the driver was not over speeding when the accident happened,” recounted a passenger of the ill-fated bus.

This is as a lorry driver identified as John who was trailing the bus gave a conflicting account that the bus was over speeding.

“I do not know how the accident happened, I was shocked to only hear people crying…” added a woman who sat close to the driver.

Barely five days ago, 12 people died on the Salgaa stretch after the vehicle they were traveling in was involved in an accident. All the dead were in Great Rift shuttle vehicle registration KCB 824G which was heading to Eldoret.

The infamous Salgaa stretch is 14 kilometers long between Salgaa and Sachangwan along the Nakuru-Eldoret highway and is one of the deadliest blacks-pot in the country which has claimed hundreds of lives over the years. In one of the horrific incidents, 131 people died at Sachangwan in 2009 when they were burnt to death after an oil tanker went up in flames after an accident.