Two people died in separate road accidents in Naivasha on Wednesday evening.
In the first accident, a car heading to Eldoret from Naivasha was involved in a road accident that left a middle-aged woman dead and the driver seriously injured.
The driver lost control of the car which rolled several times before landing in a ditch at Ihindu trading centre along the Nairobi-Nakuru highway.
The driver is said to have hit the guard-rails near the centre before the car rolled.
The vehicle had two occupants one being a woman died while undergoing treatment.
According to James Kabono from Naivasha Safety Group, the driver was speeding.
“The two passengers were seriously injured and taken to hospital. Unfortunately the woman died while undergoing treatment,” he said.
In the second accident, a middle aged man was run over by an unknown car along the Naivasha-Mai Mahiu road on Wednesday night.
The body was left severed after other cars ran over it, before police moved in and collected it hours later.
The remains were taken to the local mortuary.
A resident Abraham Kori said the deceased was crossing the road near Longonot town when a speeding car hit him before driving off.
“The car that was headed to Naivasha town used the cover of darkness to speed off. By the time police arrived the body had been run-over by other cars,” he said.
Naivasha OCPD Samuel Waweru confirmed both cases, adding that the bodies had been taken to Naivasha Subcounty Hospital mortuary.
“We had two different accidents where we lost a woman and a middle-aged man. Officers from the traffic department have opened inquest files,” he said.
(Edited by Bilha Makokha)
