Twelve people have been confirmed dead in an accident at the infamous Nithi Bridge blackspot while they were leaving a ceremony on Saturday night.
According to report by the Tharaka Nithi County Police Commander Zacchaeus Ng’eno, the twelve were coming from a parental blessing ceremony in Meru before their vehicle head on collided with another vehicle.
“So far, we are confirming that we have collected 12 bodies from this scene and two others injured. This accident involved two motor vehicles, one was headed towards Nairobi and the other towards Meru.”
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The County Commander said that the driver was not well versed with the highway and was driving on the wrong lane when the crash occurred with the oncoming vehicle at the bridge.
“From the preliminary investigation, the motor vehicle from Meru direction was not a regular user of this road and and I may assume that the did not stay in the lane as expected of him and was involved in a head-on collision with a vehicle headed in the opposite direction.”
According to the County Commander, there were two survivors in the grisly accident and the two were rushed to Chogoria Mission Hospital and Chuka hospital for specialised treatment.
Among the deceased, eight of them were male adults while two were female adults and the other two were children who were together with the adults from the ceremony at the time of accident.
The National Transport and Safety Authority (NTSA) also confirmed the incident and said that police had been dispatched to the scene of accident to help with the situation.
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“Two separate traffic crashes involving public service vehicles have been reported at the Nithi Bridge and the other at Murram area ( after Koru). The National Police Service and emergency responders are on scene.”