Police said that 11 people were killed and 42 people were critically injured after a bus carrying students from a prestigious institution in Kenya skidded in heavy weather and crashed with a truck on a busy highway.
On Monday at 5:50 p.m. (1450 GMT), while the students from Kenyatta University were traveling to the coastal town of Mombasa, an accident occurred near Maungu, 360 kilometers (220 miles) from Nairobi, the country’s capital.
Police said that 42 people were critically hurt and that ten individuals died immediately upon impact and one more died later in the hospital.
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“The driver of (the) university bus was overtaking a fleet of motor vehicles and as it was raining heavily, the bus skidded to the right side of the road,” the report said.
This “prompted the driver of the truck to avoid head on collision, hence hitting the left side of the university bus,” it added.
The bus was carrying 58 people.
The Kenyan Red Cross said on X, formerly Twitter, that the injured had been sent to a hospital in the neighboring town of Voi.
Road conditions are frequently poor and traffic laws are either broken or disregarded in the east African country, which leads to a high rate of road accidents.
The number of road accidents in Kenya in 2023 was 7,8 percent lower than the previous year, with 4,324 fatalities and 18,561 injuries, according to data released by the National Transport and Safety Authority.
But the beginning of 2024 was deadly, with 536 deaths from January 1 to February 11, which is 5% more than during the same time in the previous year.
The most well-known one resulted in the 24-year-old world marathon record holder Kelvin Kiptum’s death on February 11.
