Fatal accident occurred today date 7/1/2018 at JOSA area along WUNDANYI MWATATE road at about 0930hrs involving m/v reg. No. KCF 647S Isuzu bus belonging to Royal services , Which was being driven by Mwania syengo aged 44yrs.
It happened that the vehicle which was heading towards Mwatate from Wundanyi had 33 passengers on board, who were mourners of KPA Mombasa who were returning back from a funeral at Wundanyi.
On reaching at the location of the accident, the driver lost control at a Sharp corner and the vehicle rolled several times down the slope before being stopped by a tree.
As a result of the accident one passenger died on the spot. Unknown male adult died on the way to hospital.
Other passengers were injured and admitted at voi district hospital.
And the driver sustained body tissue injury and rushed to moi voi district hospital, the bodies are lying at the same hospital mortuary.
Towards the end of a long journey, drivers tend to ease up and concentration levels drop and that’s when you see experienced drivers cause some very silly accidents.
On an episode of mythbusters they really beat down and rolled over a cliff an american made bus . Type kama hii[ATTACH=full]149472[/ATTACH](prevost a subsidiary of volvo)
That bus took all that was thrown at it and still afterwards ran like a charm
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Ofcourse there are the bad accidents where the roof is torn off completely but it feels like it is well built with anti-roll bars. i think we need such buses on our roads.