Two dead, 10 injured in Nakuru – Eldoret Highway accident

This was after a trailer is reportedly lost control and rammed a 14-seater matatu.

by JENNIFER KANARI

News17 July 2025 - 14:48

In Summary

Emergency responders rushed to the scene to assist those injured.
Bodies were taken to Nakuru city Mortuary as vehicles are being redirected through the Njoro interchange.

Two people have been confirmed dead, including a seven-year-old boy, after a trailer collided with a matatu along the Nakuru-Eldoret Highway.

At least 10 other people sustained serious injuries.

The accident, according to eyewitnesses, involved a PSV vehicle and a trailer loaded which was ferrying logs.

The trailer reportedly lost control and rammed a 14-seater matatu. Eyewitnesses say several passengers were trapped under the trailer.

"A woman and her child were standing when a trailer came from nowhere and knocked them," Hillary Chwea, a resident in Ngata, said.

Emergency responders rushed to the scene to assist those injured.

Bodies were taken to Nakuru city Mortuary as vehicles were redirected through the Njoro interchange.

Residents in Ngata have raised concerns about the road that which has been under construction, saying the road does not have a service lane and a stage.

Allan Odhiambo, a resident in Ngata, has noted that their main plea is for the road to have a service lane.

Our major concerns are very simple, and we have addressed them for a long time. Our plea is that this road should have a service lane,’’ Odhiambo noted.

Motorists have been urged to be careful while using the roads to avoid accidents and uncessary loss of lives which have been witnessed in the recent past in various parts of the county.

In April, at least seven people were killed in an accident in the Limuru area along the Nakuru-Nairobi highway.

During the incident, seven people died after a 14-seater matatu lost control and veered off the road at the Kamandura junction on the Nairobi-Nakuru highway, police said.

Witnesses and police said the vehicle plunged into a steep slope and rolled several times, killing five on the spot.

In another incident, at least seven people were killed while 11 others were injured in a grisly road accident at Kijauri junction along the Kisii–Sotik highway on July 12.

Those injured include three critical cases at a local hospital.

The accident increased to 14, the number of those killed in separate accidents on Friday alone, police said. More than 15 others were injured in the accidents, officials said.