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Collins Oduor |
April 7th 2021 at 14:36:29 GMT +0300
The trailer truck crashed into two vehicles. [Collins Oduor, Standard]
Two died on the spot when a truck veered off a fly-over, crushed a barrier wall, and plunged onto cars parked below at Kasagam on the Kisumu-Nairobi Hogh Way.
Eyewitnesses said the cane-hauling behemoth was speeding.
Danger from above: The crushed cars.[Collins Oduor, Standard]
A saloon bore the weight of the giant. [Collins Oduor, Standard]
On-lookers wonder how, the hell, it happened. [Collins Oduor, Standard]
An unfortunate Toyota station wagon. [Collins Oduor, Standard]
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Eighteen people are reported to have died in two separate road accidents on Wednesday.
In the first incident, 15 people were killed in a road accident at Kizingi, on the Mombasa-Malindi Highway. Six employees of the Kilifi County government are among the victims.
County officials said their colleagues died when a minibus heading to Kilifi from Malindi was involved in a head-on collision with a bus near Malindi town
In another accident, three people died when a cane tractor overturned at Kasagam on the Kisumu-Nairobi road.
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LOST CONTROL OF VEHICLE
Witnesses said the driver of the tractor was speeding while approaching the flyover before he lost control of the vehicle.