The wreckage of a matatu after it collided head on with an oncoming bus at Ntulele along the Narok-Nairobi highway killing 9 people on the spot.
Nine people lost their lives Thursday afternoon in a grisly road accident after a Nissan matatu they were traveling in rammed into an oncoming bus near the Ntulele black spot where a bus killed more than 41 people in August 29, 2013.
The matatu, a Bomet liner, was ferrying passengers from Ntulele shopping centre after it collided head on with a Transline Company bus traveling from Kisii to Nairobi at the Pinyiny Hills. All the casualties were in the Nissan matatu.
According to Narok OCPD Peterson Maelo, the 3:30pm accident happened after the matatu burst its rear tyre, hit the guard rail and bounced back to the road colliding with the bus.
“It’s then that the bus that was also accelerating downhill from the opposite direction hit it, killing all the occupants of the small vehicle on the spot,” said Mr Maelo.
“The driver of the
bus has been taken to hospital, together with a few of his passengers
with minor injuries. It is sad,” said Mr Maelo.
Passengers aboard the Transline bus did not sustain any injuries save for the driver of the bus who sustained serious injuries and was immediately rushed to the Narok District Hospital.The black spot is about 5 kilometers from Ntulele shopping centre and 15 kilometers from Narok town.
The bodies were taken to to Narok district hospital mortuary.
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