At least 21 people were killed and 49 others were injured when a bus travelling for the Kenyan city of Nairobi crashed shortly after crossing the border from Uganda, authorities said on Sunday. This incident is the latest in a string of catastrophic road accidents that have occurred in recent weeks. The majority of people slain were Kenyan nationals, according to Rogers Taitika, a spokesman for the Ugandan regional police, who spoke to the AFP news agency. He also stated that eight Ugandans were among the deceased.
Late on Saturday night, a bus that was travelling from the city of Mbale in eastern Uganda to the capital city of Nairobi crashed in the town of Lwakhakha, Kenya, which is located directly over the border from a town with the same name in Uganda. According to Taitika, it appeared as though the driver had lost control of the car, which resulted in it going off the road. In addition to this, he stated that “preliminary investigations indicate to a case of over-speeding by the bus driver.” Following a recent spike in the number of traffic accidents that have occurred in the East African nation of Uganda in recent days, the Ugandan government intends to announce new measures in an effort to attempt to enhance road safety. Near the city of Gulu in northern Uganda on January 6, a passenger bus collided with a truck that was parked, resulting in the deaths of sixteen persons.
In addition to the victims of the most recent accidents that occurred in January, the Ugandan police report that there were 104 road accidents that occurred in only three days during the New Year period between December 30 and January 1, with a total of 35 people killed and 114 wounded. Speaking at the burial of three siblings who had been killed in an accident on January 2, Security Minister Jim Muhwezi stated that the government was in the process of developing new safety measures in an effort to limit the number of accidents.
