{"id":914815,"date":"2022-01-09T16:58:22","date_gmt":"2022-01-09T16:58:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/news\/2022\/01\/09\/three-die-four-injured-in-gilgil-road-crash\/"},"modified":"2022-01-09T16:58:22","modified_gmt":"2022-01-09T16:58:22","slug":"three-die-four-injured-in-gilgil-road-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/01\/09\/three-die-four-injured-in-gilgil-road-crash\/","title":{"rendered":"Three die, four injured in Gilgil road crash"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Saloon car involved in the\u00a0road crash.<\/strong> [Kipsang Joseph, Standard]\n<\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Three people died after two vehicles collided along the Nairobi-Nakuru Highway in Gilgil.\n<\/p>\n

Gilgil Sub County Police commander John Onditi said that the accident involved a private car bound for Nairobi and a 14-seater matatu heading towards Nakuru. <\/p>\n

“The private car was speeding at the Gilgil junction when the driver lost control of it and rammed into a matatu heading in the opposite direction,” said Onditi.\n<\/p>\n

The sub-county police boss explained that three people died on the spot while others were rushed to the hospital with injuries.<\/p>\n

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Matatu involved in the road crash.<\/strong> [Kipsang Joseph, Standard]\n<\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

“The car had five people on board. Three passengers died upon impact. The driver and one passenger survived with injuries,” said Onditi.\n<\/p>\n

He added that the two survivors from the saloon car and two other passengers on board the matatu are recuperating at the Gilgil Sub County Hospital. <\/p>\n

“Bodies of the three have been removed to the Gilgil Sub County Hospital mortuary while the wreckage has been towed to Gilgil Police Station,” said Onditi.\n<\/p>\n

He warned motorists using the highway against speeding and to observe traffic rules to avert such tragedies.\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Source: The Standard Media Kenya<\/a> <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Saloon car involved in the\u00a0road crash. [Kipsang Joseph, Standard] Three people died after two vehicles collided along the Nairobi-Nakuru Highway in Gilgil. Gilgil Sub County Police commander John Onditi said that the accident involved a private car bound for Nairobi and a 14-seater matatu heading towards Nakuru. “The private car was speeding at the Gilgil […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-914815","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-headlines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/914815","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=914815"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/914815\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=914815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=914815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=914815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}