Witness Reveals How Passenger Pressured Driver to Speed Before Accident

A witness has revealed that a passenger in a vehicle that was involved in an accident on Tuesday, April 9, morning along the Nakuru-Eldoret highway pressured the driver to speed. 

While speaking to the media, the witness, who was also a driver of a separate vehicle, narrated that the passenger had boarded the vehicle he was driving at around 2:00am.

However, he kept lamenting that the vehicle was going too slow, and he would miss his appointments for the day if the driver did not increase the speed. 

“We were onboarding passengers on our vehicles in the morning and there was a passenger who was in the vehicle I was driving.

“He was in such a hurry and kept saying that he was going to court in Nyamira and later he needed to go to court in Naivasha. He was in such a hurry and started making calls,” he said.

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Passenger Moved to Another Vehicle After Uproar

After a while, the restless passenger caused chaos in the vehicle because the rest of the occupants of the van did not want the driver to speed. Fed up, the driver offloaded the passenger to another vehicle which would later be involved in the accident.

“He had the contact of the driver of the vehicle that was involved in the accident. He caused chaos in the vehicle and began complaining that he would rather travel in the vehicle of ‘Mayoyo’, the other driver.

“When he said that we decided to let him go to the vehicle that he wanted. We stopped at a petrol station and the other driver came and he boarded the vehicle,” he added. 

According to the witness, the vehicle did not travel a long distance before it crashed into an oncoming trailer. Both the passenger and the driver died on the spot. 

Reportedly the conductor, who also passed away, was the brother of the driver of the vehicle.

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Details of the Accident

Seven people passed away on the spot as a result of the accident. Eyewitnesses reported that the accident involved three vehicles including the van, a stalled lorry and a fuel tanker. 

The Toyota van that was ferrying passengers from Nakuru to Kisii collided with a fuel tanker at Ngata bridge along the Nakuru-Eldoret highway.

Further, police at the scene indicated that the tanker was trying to overtake another vehicle when the collision happened.

Others who succumbed to the accident include three children between 1 and 11 years. One person survived and is receiving treatment at the Nakuru Teaching and Referral Hospital.