Traders dance with death along highways as they abandon markets for quick road sales

Traders selling clothes along Nakuru-Kapsabet highway in Soko Mjinga market in Nandi. [Edward Kosut, Standard]

A truck screeches to a halt, crushing several watermelons on the roadside, forcing three women to jump into a drainage system to escape being crushed next to the Kisumu Bus Park, along the busy Kisumu-Nairobi Highway.

A group of traders scream momentarily and start hurling insults at the truck driver, before going on with their businesses casually, despite government directives to move their businesses away from the roadside.