Five people have died and others seriously injured after a road accident that occurred in Subukia, Nakuru county on Tuesday night.
According to the chief of Subukia area, Norman Macharia, the cargo truck carrying timber lost its direction and hit two people on a boda boda. It then went off the road and hit other passersby.
Residents in the area have reported increased accidents on the Nakuru – Nyahururu highway recently. They want the government to investigate in detail
This came Interior Principal Secretary Raymond Omollo said there will be heightened traffic operations to address reckless driving, overloaded vehicles, and unlicensed public service vehicles and other forms of indiscipline on our roads.
“We have deployed additional traffic officers on the roads to ensure free flow of traffic,” he said.
