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Behaviour change and tech key to taming road carnage

Londiani roadside groceries seller holds a bunch of vegetables at Londiani road junction where 53 people were crashed to death by a trailer. [Nikko Tanui, Standard]

It was like a horror movie. Fifty-one ordinary citizens died last week when a lorry hit them as they went on with their business by the roadside in Londiani.

It is common at Kangemi and many other regions in Kenya for traders to sell foodstuffs and merchandise by the roadside.

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