Thika Superhighway , Outering Road and Waiyaki Way have been named Nairobi's most dangerous roads by the NTSA report.
This comes as the National Transport and Safety Authority revealed that the City County recorded 357 deaths out of the 3,202 that occurred as a result of road accidents countrywide.
This is for the period between January 1, 2022, and August 31, 2022.
Thika Superhighway leads with 44 crashes , closely followed by Outering Road with 43, despite the dualling of the 13km road.
Waiyaki Way recorded 23 while both Mombasa Road and Northern Bypass had 17 accidents within the period under review.
Eastern Bypass recorded 15, Ngong Road at 13 and Jogoo Road had 8.
In terms of road user group NTSA data reveal that pedestrians top the list with 199 having died due to road crashes in Nairobi.
Motorcyclists come in second having recorded 81 crashes, followed by passengers at 28 , drivers -26 , pillion passengers -17 and pedal cyclists at six.
In October 2021, the Kenya Urban Roads Authority and the police conducted an exercise that saw at least 300 people arrested for crossing at undesignated points along major Nairobi roads.
Majority of those arrested for crossing at undesignated points were along Outering Road and Mbagathi Way now known as Raila Odinga Way.
Outering Road has been making headlines in the past two years leading in number of accidents between 2018 -2019.
In June 2018, the NTSA ranked Nairobi’s Outer Ring Road as the most dangerous highway in the city.
In August 2019, Outering Road came in second after data from NTSA ranked Mombasa Road as the deadliest.
