@Newfarer i agrre with you,its definetly out of hand and its been so for the last couple of months,our drivers have totally lost it.We need thorough enforcement of the traffic act and i definetly hope the new ones will come into place soon.Its alarming...

drivers of merc will hardly hit you but a prombox mkokoteni and other toyotas owned by showy middleclass will easily deport you to your maker.

Michuki is long dead! I have no idea who will replace him! Kibaki sould have maintained him in that ministry en may be by the time he was dieing, we all would be very conscious of traffic rules. In this case both the Motorist and pedestrian r to blame. The motorist drive so fast even when one is very drunk whereas the pedestrian cross the road even when the incoming vehicle is at high speed! They assume the driver is seeing them or he can as well brake for you. Some drivers by the way r either on phone with zero concentration or they r busy operating the radio or CD to listen to good music, so by the time they hit u, they had no idea u were crossing the road! We must all be responsible!

I have always maintained that road safety starts with the user hii mambo ya serikali is to blame for everything is getting into our heads.

@essyk Pls remind your Pastor that it would be better if we live until Jesus finds alive on his second coming. But I guess it was with a light touch.
Meanwhile, according to one ex colleague being hit by one of those big, expensive cars ain't so bad especially if u don't die/get hurt. Some guys apparently just sign a blank cheque and hand it over to the accident victim so he can fill in the remaining details.(Assuming that you don't fill an amount then it bounces.)

Anyway, a starting point towards reducing accidents could be by each one of us taking reasonable care of himself and other road users and with time it will be the rule and not the exception to be a good road user.

@Lolest is it the speed really?Take alook at the link provided you will notice that the average speed in most express ways is above 120 kph http://en.wikipedia.org/...Speed_limits_by_country
and their accident rates are way below what we get,I think our drivers are just indiscplined,rather most drivers are,how many times have you met a car parked smack in the middle of the road without warning signs...we are just too complecent...and we just take things for granted.

& 3 ROAR staff perished over the weekend DN pg 63. Ploughed through Nyayo Stadium roundabout

@,in the 15 century,a guy called Thomas hobbes described what he called a 'state of nature'.In that state he said there was a general absence of rules,laws and government and as such conflict was bound to occur in the society.With no means of resolving these conflicts, life was short ,nasty and brutish.This is what is happening in Kenyan roads right now.Inasmuch as the ordinary citizen has the responsibility to ensure his/her own safety,Kenyans have created rules and laws to prevent conflict on the roads.We have elected a government to enforce these rules over us..so when the government becomes largely absent and cotinues to neglect its role.If you haven't noticed yet,there is a civil war going on our roads right now and we seem helpless to stop it.That is where the government and civil society must come in.Its very strange that the various human right groups dont seem to notice this..But the issue of our roads should be addressed urgently otherwise life on our roads will continue being nasty,short and brutish.

Very good sir

Night time travel by road is very dangerous, avoid otherwise sheria can't prevent accidents but more money for the cops