On a Saturday night, 12 people were confirmed dead after a vehicle the had boarded collided head on with another vehicle at Nithi bridge. The matatu lost control after weakening it’s breaks and collided with a miraa pick-up which was heading from Nairobi to Meru.
Speaking at the incident scene, Tharaka Nithi County Police Commissioner Zacchaeus Ng’eno confirmed that 12 people had lost their lives.
“So far, we are confirming that we have collected 12 bodies from this scene and two others injured. This accident involved two motor vehicles, one was headed towards Nairobi and the other towards Meru,” Ng’eno said.
“From the preliminary investigation, the motor vehicle from Meru direction was not a regular user of this road and and I may assume that the did not stay in the lane as expected of him and was involved in a head-on collision with a vehicle headed in the opposite direction.”
One of the witness referred the accident as extremely distressing or frightening. He reported the number of bodies that were lying on the road after the accident had happened.
“From what I saw, about 12 bodies were lying on the road, including both adults and children,” reported an eyewitness.
