Kenya’s President Ruto orders public-transport vehicle inspections
The order follows an October 25 bus–truck collision that police say killed at least 24 people, weeks after another crash killed 17 on the same highway.
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The order follows an October 25 bus–truck collision that police say killed at least 24 people, weeks after another crash killed 17 on the same highway.
Kenya’s President William Ruto ordered inspections of vehicles used for public transport after a bus carrying mourners collided with a truck on October 25, Al Jazeera said. Police said at least 24 people died, and hospital officials said another 24 were injured.
The collision came just over three weeks after an October 3 crash involving several vehicles killed 17 people near Salama on the same Nairobi–Mombasa highway. Most of those killed in the earlier crash were Catholic pilgrims travelling to a prayer site.
The October 25 crash happened at about 7:45am in Kanga, near Mtito Andei, in southeastern Kenya. The bus belonged to Power of the Word Church International in Mombasa and was taking passengers home from their pastor’s funeral in western Kenya. The truck was carrying cement.
Makueni County Commissioner Abdullahi Khalif, the government’s senior administrator in the area, told Kenyan newspaper The Standard that the bus driver had tried to overtake several vehicles before colliding with an oncoming truck. Kenya’s National Transport and Safety Authority also identified dangerous overtaking as a possible cause.
A survivor gave a different account, saying the truck struck the bus from behind. The cause of the crash remains under investigation.
Separate from Ruto’s inspection order, Transport Minister Davis Chirchir promised stronger enforcement against speeding and unsafe overtaking, improvements to dangerous sections of road, and stronger training and checks for commercial drivers.
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