Truck driver with fuel cargo loses control, rams into matatu forcing multiple collisions. Then bursts into flames in big explosion burning vehicles on both sides of the road

40 people dead

I was travelling on this road just recently and was remarking with my companions how dangerous it is for these trucks to be driven on free gear. Then this happens. These drivers need to be reigned in. Where is NTSA?

NTSA are too busy collecting revenue. It was an absurd idea for bumps to be setup on that stretch of road nevermind the lack of signage.

SAD!!!!....The Karai stretch and it's silly bumps has been discussed here before. Listening to a driver who was right behind the truck before it veered off, it seems the truck hit an unmarked bump! There are many in this country and ole you if you are not familiar with them. On another note, what is the marking code for Kenyan road bumps and what are the stand sizes?. For the few i have seen, some as big as a whale, they are marked cross, across, along ,at an angle or painted black altogether!

Fare thee well fellow Kenyans.

ati the logic was to erect bumps to prevent deaths.

With all those vehicles at that accident spot, it seems they had slowed down due to the bumps. Even if the lorry driver never knew that there were bumps there, he must have seen the vehicles ahead of him and those coming from the opposite direction slowing and done the same. I suspect the brakes of the lorry failed.

Many people here are blaming the bumps for the accident which is wrong. I believe a driver who cant see changing road conditions eg bumps, potholes, or pedestrians/donkeys/mbuzi crossing the road etc and respond appropriately has no business being on the road. That is careless driving. NB. I have seen vehicles ramming into the back of others kwa bumps on Thika road at midday despite huge warning signs that there are bumps ahead, and also presence of rumble strips and markings on the bumps. Even at night these accidents should not happen because vehicles have headlamps that illuminate the road for the driver.

Erecting bumps on a highway is criminally wrong road design. That fact cannot be ignored during the investigations into this tragic accident.

Ideally traffic on a highway should flow continuously at speed and introducing bumps is an unnecessary hazard to all road users.

The Sachangwan stretch is narrow, poorly lit and always busy. It would be dishonest to claim that the freewheeling morons are the leading cause of accidents on that section of the highway.

I ma told this lorry was a small mini tanker, same engine as a canter...it was not a tanker as our hogwash media is crying!