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The smell of death. Mutilated bodies strewn in the middle of the road. A mangled wreck. Twenty lives cut short. This was the sight of a horrific crash that left 20 dead at Soysambu along the Nairobi-Nakuru highway at 3am yesterday. Blood was still oozing out of the bodies as rescuers struggled to recover them from the mangled wreck. Rescuers had to cut through the wreckage to retrieve bodies trapped on seats and others under the wheels of loaded trailers. It was horrific.

A bus heading to Busia from Nairobi collided with a trailer headed in the opposite direction. “The bus was overtaking a trailer without sufficient clearing distance which resulted in the driver going back into the lane to avoid a head-on collision with an oncoming trailer. The miscalculation resulted in a collision with the right side of the bus getting ripped off,” read a statement by NTSA on the crash. NTSA’s preliminary investigations indicate that the crash was as a result of reckless overtaking at a descent.


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