Fourteen people died in two separate accidents just an hour after Kenyans ushered in the New Year.
Eleven of the 14 died at Migai near Salgaa on the Nakuru Eldoret highway when a truck, a bus and a 14-seater matatu collided at 1am.
Hundreds of motorists travelling back to the city after the holidays were held up for several hours as the police attempted to remove the accident vehicles from the scene.
Witnesses said the matatu heading to Nakuru rear-ended the lorry then collided with the bus as the driver attempted to avoid it.
“The matatu was at high speed. The driver tried to overtake the lorry but hit the lorry from behind as the driver saw the oncoming bus. It then swerved onto the opposite lane and rammed head on into me.
It was terrible,” the bus driver Kwambi Khameba said. All the dead were passengers in the matatu while four other passengers were critically injured and admitted to the Nakuru Provincial General Hospital.
Ten of the passengers died on the spot while one person died on arrival at the hospital.
