GEORGE SAYAGIE I NATION The wreckage of a station wagon after a head-on collision with a bus at Ntulele on the Maai Mahiu-Narok Road Thursday. Nine people in the car were killed in the accident at Pinyiny Hills, the black spot where 41 people died in a bus crash in August.
By GEORGE SAYAGIE
Nine people died Thursday afternoon in a road accident at the notorious Ntulele black spot on the Maai Mahiu-Narok Road.
A Transline Company bus from Kisii to Nairobi collided head on with a station wagon ferrying passengers from Ntulele trading centre to Narok Town. All the victims were in the small vehicle.
The accident happened at Pinyiny Hills, about 200 metres from the scene where 41 people were killed in a City to City bus accident two months ago.
Police at the scene said the accident happened at about 3.30pm. The station wagon, they added, lost control and crollided with the bus as the driver accelerated down from the Ntulele direction towards Narok. The dead were adult males.
Narok police officer Peterson Maelo said the station wagon lost control, and started swerving. “It’s then that the bus that was also accelerating downhill from the opposite direction hit it, killing all the occupants of the small vehicle on the spot,” said Mr Maelo.
“The driver of the bus has been taken to hospital, together with a few of his passengers with minor injuries. It is sad,” said Mr Maelo.
The black spot is about 15 kilometres from Narok Town, where area residents have been calling for measures to curb the many accidents.
Mr Maelo said police were yet to get details of the owner and the driver of the station wagon.
A bus passenger interviewed at the scene, Mr Joseph Nyangori, said they just saw the station wagon swerving on the road, and the driver of the bus tried to avoid hitting it.
“It was speeding towards the bus and it had left its lane before the accident occurred,” said Mr Nyangori who boarded the bus in Kisii and was headed to Nairobi.
The accident caused a huge traffic snarl up, from both the Nairobi and Narok directions, and police had a rough time controlling the traffic.
We arrived just after the accident. It was horrible, with bodies littering the scene after they were thrown out of the matatu,” said Narok resident magistrate Allan Temba, who arrived at the scene 10 minutes after the accident.
Station wagon vehicle was completely destroyed .
Motorists along the root and good Samaritans had a rough time removing the driver of the bus from the wreckage, after he was stuck on the bus cabin.
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