{"id":6875,"date":"2020-12-23T13:37:11","date_gmt":"2020-12-23T10:37:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.magaripoa.com\/?p=6875"},"modified":"2020-12-23T13:37:11","modified_gmt":"2020-12-23T10:37:11","slug":"mother-whose-car-plunged-into-the-ocean-in-mombasa-has-died-her-son-survived","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.magaripoa.com\/gari\/mother-whose-car-plunged-into-the-ocean-in-mombasa-has-died-her-son-survived\/","title":{"rendered":"Mother whose car plunged into the ocean in Mombasa has died, her son survived"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 12pt;\">A woman<strong>\u00a0<a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.magaripoa.com\/gari\/car-plunges-into-indian-ocean-at-makupa-causeway-in-mombasa-with-lady-driver-and-child\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">whose car plunged into the Indian Ocean at Makupa Causeway<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0in Mombasa has died.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 12pt;\">Ms Winnie Achieng, 33, was pronounced dead on arrival at the Coast General Hospital where she had been rushed for treatment.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 12pt;\">According to a police report obtained by the\u00a0<em>Nation<\/em>, Ms Achieng, who was the driver of the ill-fated car, hit a pavement while heading towards Mombasa Island from Changamwe.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 12pt;\">&#8220;It happened that the driver who was at the time using the outer lane overtook a motorcycle which was ahead of her and as when was swerving back, the motor vehicle hit a pavement, lost control and plunged into the Indian Ocean,&#8221; reads the police report.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 12pt;\">The deceased who was driving a Toyota Vitz, registration KCY 556B, had her 12-year-old son in the car at the time of the incident.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 12pt;\">The boy\u00a0managed to swim to safety while the woman was rescued by local divers.\u00a0He had minor injuries which were treated at the hospital before he left with his father.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 12pt;\">The woman, however, is said to have taken in a lot of water before she was\u00a0rescued.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A woman\u00a0whose car plunged into the Indian Ocean at Makupa Causeway\u00a0in Mombasa has died. Ms Winnie Achieng, 33, was pronounced dead on arrival at the Coast General Hospital where she had been rushed for treatment. According to a police report obtained by the\u00a0Nation, Ms Achieng, who was the driver of the ill-fated car, hit a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6876,"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-6875","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\/pej6K6-1MT","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.magaripoa.com\/gari\/wp-content\/uploads\/Mother-whose-car-plunged-into-the-ocean-in-Mombasa-has-died-her-son-survived-magaripoa.jpg?fit=1440%2C720&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.magaripoa.com\/gari\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6875","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=6875"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.magaripoa.com\/gari\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6875\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.magaripoa.com\/gari\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6876"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.magaripoa.com\/gari\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.magaripoa.com\/gari\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.magaripoa.com\/gari\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}