Nine people were killed while two other sustained serious injuries Friday morning after a Nissan matatu they were travelling in collided with a truck at Roysambu area along the Nakuru Nairobi road.
According to Gilgil Sub-County police commander Joseph Onditi said the Nissan Matatu that was headed to Nairobi from Nakuru collided with the truck that was overtaking a car on its way towards Nakuru from Nairobi.
The management of Mololine Services that owns the said the Matatu left Nakuru for Nairobi today at 4.45 am with 9 people on board among them a staff driver on his way to Nairobi to pick one of the company’s vehicles.
Wrecks of the vehicles have been towed to Gilgil police station.
Police have urged motorists along the highway to observe traffic rules as a way of averting road carnage.