Police Officer Burnt To Death In Siaya Accident After Friday Night Party

A police officer was on Saturday morning, October 15 burnt to death in a fire that engulfed a car, with two others escaping with critical injuries.

The officer, alongside two of his colleagues, was involved in an accident on Fuludhi Bridge along the Siaya-Rang'ala road.

The trio were reported to have been driving from Ugunja to Siaya town, after coming from the former on a night out. They had used a white vehicle belonging to one of their colleagues.

An image of Siaya County Referral Hospital. /FACEBOOK

The driver of the vehicle had unfortunately lost control, leading to the accident. The car hit the guardrails before rolling several times.

According to police reports, two other cops had fled from the vehicle with broken legs before it caught fire.

The third officer was however trapped in the vehicle.

Siaya Sub-County police commander Benedict Mwangangi confirmed the incident, adding that the car went up in flames with the third officer trapped inside.

His body was ferried to the Siaya County Referral Hospital morgue while his colleagues were rushed to a nearby hospital for treatment. 

During the previous weekend, 12 people were killed in a horrific road accident in the Subuiga area along the Meru-Nanyuki Road on Saturday, October 8.

A survivor of the ill-fated bus involved in the crash, belonging to Party on Wheels, revealed that the bus was not stopped by the police throughout the journey from Nairobi as they met the officers at different checkpoints but allowed the vehicle to proceed.

The survivor noted that they were on their way to Samburu for camping and that the bus had 22 revellers. He denied claims that the driver of the bus was intoxicated at the time of the accident and that he was only mandated to drive the partygoers to Samburu and back.

He added that the driver's section is separated from the party area in the vehicle and during the time of the crash, he was with a co-driver. The driver had perished in the grisly Saturday evening accident but the co-driver survived.

National Police Service (NPS) spokesperson Bruno Shioso noted that between January 1, 2022, and September 26, 2022, a total of 15,924 victims of road crashes across the country have been recorded with 3,541 victims fatally injured and 7,236 persons seriously injured. 5,147 victims were slightly injured.

The number of fatalities this year is compared to 3,286 who perished in the same period a year, thus representing a 7.8 per cent increase.

Wreckage of the bus that was involved in an accident on Saturday, October 8, 2022. /CITIZEN DIGITAL