Easy Coach Speaks After Naivasha Night Accident Involving Trailer

Easy Coach on Monday, April 3 issued a statement after one of its buses rammed into a trailer near Naivasha weighbridge along the Nairobi‐Nakuru Highway on Sunday night, April 2.

The bus company revealed that the bus, which was reportedly full of passengers, was travelling to Malaba on Kenya's western border with Uganda when it collided with a trailer before the former veered off the highway.

Easy Coach added that the truck was trying to overlap while travelling in the opposite direction before the accident.

Wreckage of a bus belonging to Easy Coach Limited at an accident scene along the Nairobi-Nakuru Highway on Sunday, April 2, 2023. /FACEBOOK.MA3ROUTE

"Last night at around 9.30 pm, our bus heading to Malaba was involved in an accident a kilometre to the Gilgil weighbridge with a truck heading opposite direction which was trying to overlap," stated the company in part.

While wishing a quick recovery to the injured passengers, Easy Coach added that one passenger was hospitalized while the remainder, some with minor injuries, were rescued by the Nakuru bus which took them to their destination.

"One passenger is admitted at a Naivasha hospital. The remaining passengers some with minor injuries proceeded with their journey using our Nakuru rescue bus," the company added.

Easy Coach's statement however contradicts one issued by the Kenya Red Cross - Nakuru branch which revealed that the accident occurred an hour before midnight.

"On Sunday at around 2300hrs, there was an accident between an Easy Coach bus and a trailer that just happened near Naivasha weighbridge along the Nairobi‐Nakuru Highway.

According to the latest data from the National Transport and Safety Authority (NTSA), the number of road fatalities decreased by 4.6 per cent in the past year. 

NTSA detailed that the number of fatalities involving pedestrians, pillion passengers and motorcyclists had reduced from 1,021 to 974 between March 20, 2023, and the same date the previous year. 

Driver fatalities, however, increased from 95 in 2022 to 98 in 2023, while passenger fatalities increased from 154 in 2022 to 171 in 2023 and that of pedal cyclists increased from 15 in 2022 to 17 in 2023. 

The Easy Coach accident came a few days after an accident involving a bus belonging to Pwani University that killed 18 people occurred along the same highway.

Wreckage of a matatu and the Pwani University Bus involved in an accident at Naivasha Kayole area on March 30, 2023. /TWITTER.WARUI JOHN