Several people are feared dead while others sustained injuries after a bus from Nairobi overturned at Fort Ternan in Kericho on the afternoon of Monday, October 11.
According to a police officer in Kericho, the Mbukinya Bus, which was headed to Kisumu from Nairobi, overturned at the black spot resulting in casualties.
The PSV veered off the road and hit a guardrail.
Emergency calls were responded to by a medical team from Londiani District Hospital who rushed to aid the accident victims.
Eyewitnesses alleged that the accident occurred because the road was slippery since it was raining. However, the cause of the accident is yet to be ascertained.
In recent years, Fort Ternan has been marked as a black spot after recording a number of accidents including a 2018 crash that claimed over 50 lives.
10 survivors of the accident involving a Homeboyz bus were rushed to a nearby hospital in Muhoroni.
According to National Transport and Safety Authority (NTSA), there are more than 273 accident blackspots across the country.
199 of those blackspots are located in the Northern corridor.
Recent statistics by NTSA show that as of September 20, 2021, road accident fatalities had increased by 25 per cent.
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