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50 dead - Muhoroni highway bus crash
2012
#1 Posted : Wednesday, October 10, 2018 8:46:28 AM
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Sad. And it's not December yet.

BBI will solve it
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murchr
#2 Posted : Wednesday, October 10, 2018 9:43:34 AM
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A limo crash killed 20 in NY and the accident was termed as the worst in 9 years. Here 50 is just another number in the tally. Are inspections really carried out not just by NTSA but even at the assembly place.
"There are only two emotions in the market, hope & fear. The problem is you hope when you should fear & fear when you should hope: - Jesse Livermore
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kayhara
#3 Posted : Wednesday, October 10, 2018 9:56:41 AM
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Well we relaxed the michuki rules, does NTSA even check the expensive speed governors they made PSV buy? even the uniforms are gone many crew do not wear them, NTSA is a revenue collector not a single initiative to improve safety but instead they impose new fines, a way to collect more money.
Kebs does not check the locally built buses heck we have never seen a crash test,our traffic police is even worse, God help us with December approaching
To Each His Own
2012
#4 Posted : Wednesday, October 10, 2018 11:54:39 AM
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As our traffic police happily collect bribes on the roads.
But why shouldn't they, yet nothing happens to their colleagues who are arrested even on camera? Have you ever seen or heard of one charged or dismissed?

BBI will solve it
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newfarer
#5 Posted : Wednesday, October 10, 2018 12:39:00 PM
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I once heard a traffic police officer arrogantly brag that they have the medal for corruption and they won't let it go anytime soon. not even the president can change that.that is the attitude in the traffic department.the death count will just continue as long as no vehicle inspection takes place.just look at the noisy matatus at Tom mboya and moi avenue and see the traffic police just across there and tell me if anything will ever change.impunity reigns at country bus station. you can easily find yourself in Nakuru without your luggage while you were heading to thika.

I call this so called accidents genocides. government watching its people kill one another without taking any action. drivers kill innocent people with police just taking bribes.

I would only believe the government is genuine if the head of traffic department and the the officers where such accidents takes place are sent home every time a serious accident takes place.with
seat belts ,speed governors and uniformed disciplined crew accidents would be minimal.

who can give me the job to tame accidents?
punda amecheka
essyk
#6 Posted : Wednesday, October 10, 2018 1:05:05 PM
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But these buses.. they look like cheap mabati iron sheets.
It's a pity.
My heartfelt condolences to the bereaved.
"The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
hardwood
#7 Posted : Wednesday, October 10, 2018 1:14:48 PM
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Interesting how kenyans blame everyone else except the real culprit. The bus driver is solely to blame for the accident. Not the police, NTSA, KEBS, michuki, bumps, potholes, darkness, rain etc. If he had driven safely, the bus wouldn't have gone off the road and rolled. Safety starts with you.
murchr
#8 Posted : Wednesday, October 10, 2018 1:23:19 PM
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hardwood wrote:
Interesting how kenyans blame everyone else except the real culprit. The bus driver is solely to blame for the accident. Not the police, NTSA, KEBS, michuki, bumps, potholes, darkness, rain etc. If he had driven safely, the bus wouldn't have gone off the road and rolled. Safety starts with you.


Accidents do happen for a reason , maybe speeding- drivers fault, faulty car no regulations etc. But should the number of those dead be that many?
"There are only two emotions in the market, hope & fear. The problem is you hope when you should fear & fear when you should hope: - Jesse Livermore
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newfarer
#9 Posted : Wednesday, October 10, 2018 1:49:11 PM
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hardwood wrote:
Interesting how kenyans blame everyone else except the real culprit. The bus driver is solely to blame for the accident. Not the police, NTSA, KEBS, michuki, bumps, potholes, darkness, rain etc. If he had driven safely, the bus wouldn't have gone off the road and rolled. Safety starts with you.

if the basic michuki rules were in force,the casualties would have been quite few.working speed governors can easily reduce accidents considerably then we are left to deal with human failures.but how many matatus physically go for inspection? you just pay 3000 and the inspection certificate is brought to you.
punda amecheka
2012
#10 Posted : Wednesday, October 10, 2018 1:52:40 PM
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hardwood wrote:
Interesting how kenyans blame everyone else except the real culprit. The bus driver is solely to blame for the accident. Not the police, NTSA, KEBS, michuki, bumps, potholes, darkness, rain etc. If he had driven safely, the bus wouldn't have gone off the road and rolled. Safety starts with you.


So you think the driver was suicidal?

The blame goes to the system because you cannot entrust 1 person with the lives of 70 people just like you cannot put all the trust in a pilot but the airline and system. That's why you don't need to know the CID report of the pilot before you board.

BBI will solve it
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