Complains started streaming in at around 6PM and continued by the time Opera News Kenya published this post,
One of the affected people said the jam was occasioned by truck that overturned just after General Motors and was causing congestion up until Uhuru Highway.
A trailer overturned just after GM on Mombasa road. It’s caused all this traffic coz our @NPSOfficial_KE traffic cops are illequiped to rapidly respond to such emergencies thus bleeding the economy of millions in traffic snurlups
— Tony Kavinguha🌿 (@AntonnyK) September 12, 2019
A video posted on Twitter showed an overturned green truck beside the road
At the scene traffic officers were scene guiding the drivers. Rescue vehicles were present too.
Mombasa road this is the reason mtangoja kidogo town. https://t.co/XL2ixXvMEs
— E.W.M. (@McSymon) September 12, 2019
19:09 @AmimaOngeri A trailer overturned just after GM on Mombasa road. It’s caused all this traffic coz our @NPSOfficial_KE traffic cops are illequiped to rapidly respond to such emergencies thus bleeding the economy of millions in traffic snurlups via @AntonnyK
— Ma3Route (@Ma3Route) September 12, 2019
19:20 If not in a hurry to get home via Mombasa road outbound just chill in town, have supper then after 9pm you can go sleep. Otherwise you will have a long talk with your fellow passenger till ujue nyanyake anafanyanga hustlegani . via @cMugwaja
— Ma3Route (@Ma3Route) September 12, 2019
18:26 Mombasa Road is parking lot not moving an inch. Watu watulie tao tu. via @Wuod_Lo
— Ma3Route (@Ma3Route) September 12, 2019
Mombasa road this is the reason mtangoja kidogo town. https://t.co/XL2ixXvMEs
— E.W.M. (@McSymon) September 12, 2019
Ile kukaa nimekaa kwa jam hapa mombasa road only God knows 2hr kutoka capital centre mpaka GM
— harun hawamu (@HarunHawamu) September 12, 2019
Southern bypass, mombasa road is a mess parking lot.
— Stephanie H. Osinde (@skishi) September 12, 2019
Mombasa road is still a mess. #KOTLoyals, beware
— Ole Lapits (@Lapistss) September 12, 2019
20:58 those connecting Mombasa road via south b avoid it kabisa use alternative route..accident on sight kapiti road pic.twitter.com/9jYZSdqAEv via @NellyKyalo
— Ma3Route (@Ma3Route) September 12, 2019
21:06 Outbound traffic on Mombasa road at Bellevue slow pic.twitter.com/aqWs69ZJWS via @SokoMad
— Ma3Route (@Ma3Route) September 12, 2019