{"id":6712,"date":"2024-12-19T11:39:14","date_gmt":"2024-12-19T08:39:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.magaripoa.com\/?p=6712"},"modified":"2024-12-19T11:39:14","modified_gmt":"2024-12-19T08:39:14","slug":"brake-failure-caused-this-matatu-to-plunge-into-sondu-miriu-river-killing-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.magaripoa.com\/gari\/brake-failure-caused-this-matatu-to-plunge-into-sondu-miriu-river-killing-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Brake failure caused this matatu to plunge into Sondu Miriu River killing 2"},"content":{"rendered":"

Two people died on the spot while several others were injured after a matatu plunged into Sondu Miriu River on the Kisii-Kisumu highway.<\/span><\/p>\n

Kericho County police commander Silas Gichunge said the matatu was heading to Eldoret when it collided with a lorry which was ferrying mattresses towards Kisii.<\/span><\/p>\n

The accident caused a huge traffic snarl up on the usually busy Kisii-Kisumu highway.<\/span><\/p>\n

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The driver of the matatu died on the spot while one passenger was pronounced dead on arrival at Sigowet Hospital.<\/span><\/p>\n

The police boss said the driver of the ill-fated matatu lost control of his vehicle due to what is suspected to be brake failure.<\/span><\/p>\n

He said the number of the injured passengers could not be immediately established but his officers were already on the ground to ascertain the same.<\/span><\/p>\n

The wrecked vehicle was pulled out of the river and and towed to Sondu Police Station.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Two people died on the spot while several others were injured after a matatu plunged into Sondu Miriu River on the Kisii-Kisumu highway. Kericho County police commander Silas Gichunge said the matatu was heading to Eldoret when it collided with a lorry which was ferrying mattresses towards Kisii. The accident caused a huge traffic snarl…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6714,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1975],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6712","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-road-safety"],"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pej6K6-1Kg","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.magaripoa.com\/gari\/wp-content\/uploads\/sondu-miriu-accident-magaripoa-001.jpeg?fit=1280%2C960&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.magaripoa.com\/gari\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6712","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.magaripoa.com\/gari\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.magaripoa.com\/gari\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.magaripoa.com\/gari\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.magaripoa.com\/gari\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6712"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.magaripoa.com\/gari\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6712\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.magaripoa.com\/gari\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6714"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.magaripoa.com\/gari\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.magaripoa.com\/gari\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.magaripoa.com\/gari\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}