There was drama along the Nairobi Nakuru highway when the family of a deceased family who was on the way from the mortuary stopped along the highway where the victim was killed by a hit and run vehicle and put the body on the road causing a traffic snarl-up.
The family together with residents of the area were protesting over an increased number of accidents along Mbaruk area in Nakuru County. The residents want the government to erect bumps in the highway that is notorious for drink-driving combined with speeding, poor overtaking and pedestrians in the road which resulted in 320 deaths on the Highway in one year alone.
According to residents in the area, young bodaboda riders and students from Laikipia university have been involved in numerous accidents that have left them fatally injured while others end up crippled.
The road is listed among the most dangerous roads in the world and has been cited as one of the world’s most unsafe roads that is prone to accidents. The main risks are lack of barriers, poor conditions of vehicles, poor driving techniques and weather as major causes of road accidents on the busy highway.
Locals allege that motorist should take precaution when approaching the area since it has now turned to a blackspot.
15:23 Accident at mbaruk Nakuru Nairobi highway, traffic is so bad, watch out @ntsa_kenya pic.twitter.com/WRWQnxMqOw via @kiongoskiongozi
— KenyanTraffic (@KenyanTraffic) May 1, 2015
ONE STUDENT dead,several injured after Murang’a High School bus collides with trailer at Mbaruk near Nakuru;bus driver in critical condition
— NTV Kenya (@ntvkenya) August 13, 2013
An unidentified man found dead on roadside at Mbaruk in Gilgil Sub County in Nakuru; witnesses say body had injuries on face, hands and neck pic.twitter.com/AfyvVO7M6L
— Hot 96 FM Kenya (@Hot_96Kenya) May 17, 2017