{"id":7070,"date":"2021-02-03T21:59:13","date_gmt":"2021-02-03T18:59:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.magaripoa.com\/?p=7070"},"modified":"2021-02-05T19:02:23","modified_gmt":"2021-02-05T16:02:23","slug":"kisaju","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.magaripoa.com\/gari\/kisaju\/","title":{"rendered":"Vehicle overturned and rolled into a ditch severally at Kisaju, Isinya along Nairobi-Namanga highway"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 12pt;\">Two people died on the spot Tuesday evening after the vehicle they were travelling in overturned and rolled into a ditch severally at Kisaju area in Isinya along the Nairobi-Namanga highway.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;\">\u00a0The grisly road accident occurred at around 5:30pm and involved a public service vehicle and two Lorries.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;\">\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0According to eye-witnesses, the Matatu which was travelling from Isinya to Kitengela town rammed into a stalled Lorry on the highway and lost control before hitting another lorry travelling in the opposite direction.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;\">\u00a0One woman and a man lost their lives on the spot with three other passengers who sustained serious injuries being rushed to hospital by good Samaritans.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;\">\u00a0Isinya Sub-County Police Commander, Kinyua Mugambi confirmed the accident and urged motorists to exercise extra caution on the roads, adding that the accident could have been avoided if the matatu driver was keen.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;\">\u00a0\u201cThe lorry which had stalled on the road had put up a sign and left\u00a0leaves and a Tyre on the road to warn other motorists, but the matatu driver drove over the warning signs ramming into the stalled vehicle,\u201d said Mugambi.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 He urged motorists to avoid speeding and called on all passengers to ensure that they wear seat belts as they help save lives.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;\">\u00a0The bodies of deceased persons were later taken by police to the Kajiado County Referral Hospital mortuary.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Read original post on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kenyanews.go.ke\/accident-claims-two-lives-in-isinya\"><strong>KNA<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two people died on the spot Tuesday evening after the vehicle they were travelling in overturned and rolled into a ditch severally at Kisaju area in Isinya along the Nairobi-Namanga highway.\u00a0 \u00a0The grisly road accident occurred at around 5:30pm and involved a public service vehicle and two Lorries. \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0According to eye-witnesses,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7116,"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-7070","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\/sej6K6-kisaju","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.magaripoa.com\/gari\/wp-content\/uploads\/Kisaju-accident-magaripoa.jpg?fit=1228%2C756&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.magaripoa.com\/gari\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7070","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=7070"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.magaripoa.com\/gari\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7070\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.magaripoa.com\/gari\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7116"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.magaripoa.com\/gari\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7070"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.magaripoa.com\/gari\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7070"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.magaripoa.com\/gari\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}