Overturned Easy Coach Bus which was involved in a collission with Chavakali Boys' School Bus/courtesy.
A student of Chavakali Boys High School has died and several others sustained injuries after a car accident in Maboleo, Kisumu County.
The students were returning home with the Easy Coach light bus when it overturned at Mamboleo Junction at 9 pm on Monday. Two students sustained serious injuries and are currently admitted at Avenue Hospital, Kisumu, while 32 others are receiving treatment at Jaramogi Oginga Teaching and Referral Hospital, Kisumu.
The car company confirmed the incident, promising a full disclosure. The bus was traveling on the Mbale-Nairobi route.
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According to a report from the Kondele Police Station, the driver was not found at the scene of the incident.
“It so happened that the car was passing along the said Coptic road on its way to Kisumu from Kakamega when the driver lost control and fell on the side of the road. the road then swerved. sideways,” the police report described the accident.
In another incident, 10 people, including a 2-year-old child, died after a road accident involving five vehicles. The accident happened at 8:30 pm on Monday in Salama area, on the Nairobi-Mombasa road.
According to Dr Jane Mwende, director of Sultan Amud Sub-County Hospital, the police took nine bodies to the hospital on Monday evening. The child, who was in critical condition, died from injuries.
A police statement from the Salama Police Station said that four bodies were recovered immediately while it was discovered that five other people were trapped in the rubble. Police said heavy rains in the area prevented clearing the debris.
Most of the accidents happened when the bus driver going to Mombasa did not follow his lane properly and turned right. As a result, he and a matatu crashed into another vehicle, causing a five-car accident.
Six of the ten people who died in the five-vehicle road accident were relatives. The six people, a man, a woman, and four small children, were part of a family from Nakuru who had traveled to Mombasa on Thursday for Easter celebrations.
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They were returning to Nakuru on Monday when the 14-seater matatu they had hired, part of a group of three vehicles, was hit by a truck. According to a relative of the victim, Anne Njenga, out of the seven surviving family members, four are currently being treated at a hospital in Makindu while the other three are recuperating in a hospital in in Nakuru.
Police reports indicate that the chain of accidents started when the driver of the bus, who was on his way to Mombasa, accidentally left the vehicle on the designated road, causing it to crash into the matatu. The initial impact set off a chain reaction, leading to a total of five cars.
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