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Two children and a driver perished on Friday afternoon in a grisly road accident along Southern Bypass.
The vehicle they were travelling in is said to have lost control and veered off the road to the opposite direction before ramming into an oncoming truck.
According to Langata OCPD, Benjamin Mwanthi’S salon car, a Toyota Probox was traveling from Mombasa Road towards Kikuyu area while the truck was coming from Kikuyu area towards Mombasa when the accident happened.
“The Probox lost control and it veered off the road to the opposite direction before hitting the truck head-on,” he said.
Police said the driver of the truck except unhurt.
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Social media users on Thursday morning, May 6 suggested poor lighting on the Southern Bypass contributed to the accident. [Courtesy]
A middle-aged man died on Wednesday night, May 5, after his vehicle rammed a lorry. The accident occurred on the Southern Bypass in Nairobi.
Police say the driver of the BMW X5 was speeding when the vehicle smashed into the lorry, which was on the fast lane. The driver’s compartment was crushed into small pieces and stuck under the underride guard of the commercial truck.
Police clarification
Following the accident, photos of the accident scene circulated on social media. Online reports claimed the driver of the BMW had ploughed into a stalled lorry. However, this allegation has been refuted by Lang’ata OCPD Benjamin Mwanthi.