{"id":7282,"date":"2026-01-06T13:59:11","date_gmt":"2026-01-06T13:59:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/7282\/"},"modified":"2026-01-06T13:59:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-06T13:59:11","slug":"six-killed-in-accident-on-londiani-muhoroni-road","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/7282\/","title":{"rendered":"Six killed in accident on Londiani-Muhoroni road"},"content":{"rendered":"

6 killed in accident on Londiani-Muhoroni roadSix killed in accident on Londiani-Muhoroni road\/HANDOUT<\/p>\n

At least six people were killed in a road accident involving a bus and a trailer in Tunnel Area, Kericho, along the Londiani-Fort Ternan stretch.<\/p>\n

Police said at least 46 others were injured in the Tuesday morning incident.<\/p>\n

Investigations are ongoing to establish the cause of the accident, police said. <\/p>\n


\nKericho County police commander James Ngetich said the accident happened after the bus rammed into the rear of the trailer. \n<\/p>\n

Ngetich said the two vehicles were heading towards Kisumu direction. \n<\/p>\n

According to the police, five passengers and the bus driver died on the spot, while the 46 passengers sustained serious injuries. <\/p>\n


\nThey were rushed to various hospitals in the county, including Londiani and Fortenan hospitals.<\/p>\n


\nNgetich said of the injured, 13 sustained slight injuries, while others escaped unhurt and were treated and discharged. \n<\/p>\n

He said they were yet to establish the circumstances which led to the accident, but investigations have been launched to establish the same.<\/p>\n

Six killed in accident on Londiani-Muhoroni road\/HANDOUT<\/p>\n

He cautioned drivers to be careful while on the road so as to avoid causing unnecessary accidents which could be avoided.<\/p>\n

This came as a bus carrying students headed out of Nairobi overturned in Kimende area along the Nairobi-Naivasha highway.<\/p>\n


\nPolice said 20 people sustained slight injuries. <\/p>\n


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\nThe bus was ferrying students on January 6 who were travelling back to school. \n<\/p>\n


\nPhotos seen by The Star show the bus lying on its side after it overturned. \n<\/p>\n


\nA large crowd of people gathered around the scene, including bystanders trying help students who were in the bus. \n<\/p>\n

The fatal injuries increased, the number of those killed in separate accidents since new year. <\/p>\n


\nOn Monday alone, 12 people were killed in separate accidents in the country, police said.<\/p>\n

They included four pillion passengers and three pedestrians.<\/p>\n


\nThere is a campaign to address the accident menace in the country. <\/p>\n

Close to 5,000 people were killed in separate accidents in 2025.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"6 killed in accident on Londiani-Muhoroni roadSix killed in accident on Londiani-Muhoroni road\/HANDOUT At least six people were…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7283,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[80,351,352,98,100,353,101,350,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-7282","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-kenya","8":"tag-kenya","9":"tag-kenya-news","10":"tag-star","11":"tag-star-news","12":"tag-star-news-kenya","13":"tag-star-newspaper-kenya","14":"tag-the-star","15":"tag-the-star-kenya","16":"tag-the-star-newspaper"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7282","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7282"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7282\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7283"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}