This was a very sad situation. My prayers are with the affected and a quick recovery
@GG, you raise something very critical, 83 in one bus!!!? and was the driver experienced in long distance travel? confession of the recovered student reveal that the problem started with the clutch before a complaint on the brake system...and was the travel late into the night? God bless the families and give them comfort...

My heartfelt condolences to the victims and families of the students. I was also equally shocked when that girl on Citizen TV narrated the ordeal! Very chilling!!

@GG, is it true insurance firms allow school buses to carry excess students or is it only in primary schools?

Anyone been to Meru via Nanyuki? That's one treacherous section. The accident happened near the notorious Isiolo junction, an infamous blackspot, as the bus glided down the steep section (several kms, and I mean really long, winding, very steep n full of sharp corners)-a good explanation for the burnt out clutch n failed brakes for an overloaded bus, by a driver who possibly didnt know the route well. Ironically, the slope aint too apparent, more like the Kinungi. I bet he tried his best, coz knowing the place, only a few, if any, could have survived! Praise be to God.

This is so sad..i hope someone is held responsible..we must say no to impunity!

Very sad event there. I have used that road quite a number of times. The road is a steady decent from Timau but get even worse froma a point called Kisima where there is a 'Caltex' ( it was still caltex by my last visit) petrol station. The road decends from Kisima to the Isiolo Junction ( near the hill called Subuiga or something) The decent slows at a junction called Kiirua and eventually stops at Makutano. I am giving this detail so that those who have not been there have a glimpse of how long the decent is and how easy it is for a heavy vehicle to be unable to stop despite the presence of a few bumps. I suspect the bus was overloaded, the brakes may not have been faulty at the start of the journey but the continual braking must have heated up the drums. I do not know if it had the pressure breaks which come in very handy at such places where you need to slow down a heavy truck but cannot afford to use the foot brake system. In that decent, once a bus hits a speed of above 40 KPH, and is overloaded, it is almost impossible to stop it. It just gains and gains speed. I think it is at this point teh driver said pole watoto and new his only hope was to veer off the road and have the bus stopped by some roadside gardens that exist there. Only to find a stalled bus on the road while he was trying to control his.

As mentioned earlier, someone needs to answer for the overloading ( driver included) and of there were seat belts. Perhaps they could have saved the girl who lost her hand.... wawawa that was bad.. imagine a kid asking a friend..' where is my hand?'....

Poleni sana my fellow parents.

I went to Nairobi Hospital and met some girls who are still admitted there. I hear some others are in KNH. I was moved to tears after seeing two girls who lost both their arms.