Fatalities January 1 to June 30 on major Nairobi roads;

Over 134,000 crashes occur on the Kenyan roads killing more than 4,600 and seriously injuring 11,000 people annually.

This is shocking but what is more shocking is that major Nairobi roads account, at the moment, for 34% of all the fatalities nationwide.

Mombasa road (upto Weighbridge):
197 fatalities

Ngong road:
133 fatalities

Thika Super Highway (upto Ruiru):
216 fatalities

Langata road:
88 fatalities

Waiyaki way:
61 fatalities

Jogoo road:
11 fatalities

Juja road:
9 fatalities

Kenyatta National Hospital (KNH) and the Nairobi City Mortuary recorded two hundred consecutive road traffic fatalities autopsied between May 2013
and June 2013 (140 KNH Mausoleum, 60 Nairobi City Mortuary).

The main road-user groups involved were pedestrians (62%), passengers (24%) and drivers (9%).

ROAD TRANSPORT DEPARTMENT

watched a guy survive what would have been otherwise a grisly accident, guy was driving a Nissan Wingroad on Mombasa road, ahead of him was truck, doing abt 80kph, middle lane had a ma3 which was not that fast, i was in the last lane, guy decides to change lanes goes behind the ma3 and overtake the truck, truck hit the wingroad on the driver's side, did a 180 degree turn and faced the truck head-on then while spinning got off the road to the right of the truck, into a ditch and up the other side of the road, only that it did not get to the road tarmac itself, Guy got out and charged at the truck driver who by now had stopped and gotten out, this was just after GM and if he had done that a second earlier, he would have ended on the railway track itself.

reading the kenyredcross twitter thread is realising that something is very wrong in this country. It's like drivers have a death wish and they plan to take others out too.

Drive srowry if carefurry is too hard to muster. Afadhali the guys who die, take a walk to the spine centre and you will drive srowry for the rest of your life.

very sad, the problem with the reckless drivers is that they entangle lots of innocent people in their paths

This will surely reduce road accidents and city hoppa muggings.
Jubilee gaament it is.

I will not sit and pretend I cannot make a difference. In my small way, this is what I'll do SEE HERE.

"If you think you're too small to have an impact, try going to bed with a mosquito in the room." - Anita Roddick

This eating is what leads to sleeping while we die!

===>PSV Driving should be a Diploma Course

this I Like

Quotes:

At least 3,000 Kenyans have died on our roads every year since the early 1990s.

The victims of this horrendous carnage are drivers, passengers, pedestrians, cyclists and other innocent road users.

Each of these deaths comes with attendant losses in property and lifestyles.

And then there are the hundreds of thousands who live on with trauma, body injuries, pain and various forms of incapacity.
Government response

It has always been the season of those who went holidaying but never arrived, or did not return alive.

The government always responds in the same way — it reacts rather predictably, charging the offending driver if he survives, and then moving on in overt inaction, until another accident happens.

Ministers, other transport sector officials and experts have, meanwhile, found refuge in writing tomes of vehicular laws, by-laws, rules and policies to stem the tide, to no avail.

But isn’t the cause of our rogue road retardation simple?

Quickly profile any average PSV driver. Most of them have never gone beyond Standard Four education.

If he read beyond primary school, he barely survived through high school.

He is the sort of person you would not hire to landscape your lawn or paint a public toilet.

Yet he is just the man we all entrust with transporting Kenya’s human wealth.

It takes six years to become a general physician, and four years to become an economist.

COMPLICIT

One need only become an apprentice for two weeks at some decrepit bus-stop to earn the PSV driver stripes, and the State is complicit.

It quickly licences them to weave madly through traffic snarl-ups, heave-shifting precious human cargo through any pothole, nook or cranny of road shoulder, to reach Rongai, Garissa or Kisii earlier than everyone else on the road.

That, right there, is the problem. Educating a driver must take more than a week behind the wheel.

Just as in other skills like handwriting, knitting or cooking take years of practice to master, driving should be made a tertiary-level skills course.

DIPLOMA

Let our technical institutions seriously consider teaching passenger vehicle driving as a diploma-level course.

This is a matter of life and death, which must only be permitted to those who qualify for it.

The theoretical and practical courses of study should last not less than six months.

This would allow learners to attain some level of personal commitment to professional road use, and to ingrain good passenger service values.

It will save millions of lives.

I liked the way Eng Kamau talked @Mutindwa and thats the way to go but until some people stop staying /sleeping in the offices instead of being out there,People will continue dying.

Eti two of their busses collided? Jeez!!!!