Sad....Very sad.Yesterday,i also witnessed one from a distance along Bungoma-Kanduyi road(As reported by Citizen TV although the lorry was coming from Bungoma and not the other way).A matatu suddenly stopped bang right on the road.The truck driver tries to avoid hitting the damn matatu from behind but unfortunately,there is an on-coming cyclist.The driver swerves and ends up hitting a building whose facade collapses and traps people inside......This is the funny part.Those trapped inside were drinking at 11 in the morning.......almost all Kenyans are good at breaking the law.

I think they were being sarcastic.
From their perpective, its "easier" since they know what charges to draw up. If someone is in hospital hanging between life and death, they may have to alter the charges at some point.
Very callous.

@WENDZ sorry for that experience I have been in one and I know the feeling of helplessness that meets such accidents.



yesterday I was seated on the front seat of the Matatu and they were saying a dead person can not be paid I.e when a person dies its less expensive to deal with a dead body than a living person.

Its argued compensation for a deceased(i hope i got the spelling right)is much lower than an injured survivor.

A family friend who was a truck driver ran over a biker on mombasa road some yrs back ,so as he was informing his boss of the accident,the boss asked him if he had killed him and if not make sure he had killed him by running him over again.Sadly the biker had died.

@Wendz, pole for what you saw. Mombasa road is a real killer. The trend is that more and more young people will die from car crashes especially on the last and first weekend of the month.

The other thing that you may not notice is how fast accident scenes are cleared nowadays. 30-45 minutes after an accident, there's usually no trace; the glass has been splashed away, the blood is the color of tarmac or used oil and the mangled wrecks already in the yards of nearby police stations. I am not suggesting that they remain uncleared for longer - its just that road traffic accident have become the order or the day in Nairobi.

Sitting in a pub, I couldn't help noticing how people keep urging the friends to get more beers when they know these friend of theirs have some mtumba toyota parked outside the pub. Why is it do hard to refuse an offer of a beer?

I recall having to refuse many offers many times as people at the table struggle to match the rounds.

The sad part is when such drunk people plough into you from the rear or smash an entire nuclear family into oblivion as have been the case on MSA road.