Roadblocks didn’t stop them from flying off their bikes headlong

Road safety is not just an essential element of health; it is a development agenda as well. [Benjamin Sakwa, Standard]

Balancing precariously between the concrete road barriers on one side and the rolling tyres on the other, the motorcycle rider made a charge past the column of cars and lorries on Mombasa Road. From the front of one of the trucks, another bike emerged. It was too late.