10 killed after multiple car crash on Nairobi-Mombasa highway
A matatu involved in Salama road accident.
Ten people, among them a 2-year-old child have died after a road crash involving five motor vehicles.
The accident occurred on Monday, 8.30 pm in Salama area, on the Nairobi-Mombasa highway.
According to Dr Jane Mwende, the Medical Superintendent at Sultan Amud sub-county hospital, police took nine bodies to the facility on Monday night. The child, who was in critical condition succumbed to injuries.
A police report from Salama Police Station states that four bodies were retrieved immediately while 5 others were discovered trapped in the wreckage. Police say that heavy rains in the area hampered efforts to detach the wreckages.
The multiple crash occurred as after the driver of a lorry, which was heading to Mombasa direction failed to keep to its proper traffic lane and turned right abruptly. As a result, it collided with a matatu, which was thrown to another vehicle leading to a crash of five vehicles.
