{"id":915458,"date":"2022-01-11T21:40:15","date_gmt":"2022-01-11T21:40:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/news\/2022\/01\/11\/boda-boda-rider-woman-and-her-two-children-die-in-road-crash\/"},"modified":"2022-01-11T21:40:15","modified_gmt":"2022-01-11T21:40:15","slug":"boda-boda-rider-woman-and-her-two-children-die-in-road-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/01\/11\/boda-boda-rider-woman-and-her-two-children-die-in-road-crash\/","title":{"rendered":"Boda boda rider, woman and her two children die in road crash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<figure>\n<div class=\"art-img row mx-md-0\">\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/mnmzkxatozojo61ddde70d4e23.jpg\" class=\"img-fluid w-100\" width=\"800\" height=\"500\"\/><\/div><figcaption class=\"bg-light mb-3 p-3 row mx-md-0\">\n<p><strong>Scene of Embu accident that claimed four lives<\/strong>. [Muriithi Mugo, Standard]\n<\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"card-text\">Four people have died after a G4S van collided with a motorcycle.\n<\/p>\n<p>The victims, a boda boda operator with his three pillion passengers \u2014 a woman and her two children \u2014 died on the spot. <\/p>\n<p>Julius Kyumbure, the Embu West Sub-county Police Commander, confirmed said that the rider was trying to overtake an oncoming vehicle from Embu town when the crash happened.\n<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe was headed to Kiritiri when his motorbike collided head-on with a G4S van that was coming from Kiritiri,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>An eight-month-old baby is among those who died.\n<\/p>\n<p><div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"110jMTpRt3s\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The trauma of bodaboda tragic accident victims, at various orthopedic wards across Kenya (Part 2)\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/110jMTpRt3s?feature=oembed&#038;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p>He warned boda boda operators against taking the law into their hands whenever an accident occurs, adding that they should let the police do their work. <\/p>\n<p>The police commander said investigations had been launched into the crash.\n<\/p>\n<p>Boda Boda operators took to the streets and lit tyres on the road as they protested what they termed as negligence by authorities.\n<\/p>\n<p>Martin Muchira, the chairman of Eastern Boda Boda Association, said they had written to the authorities to erect speed bumps on the road to no avail.\n<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are giving them an ultimatum of one month and if they fail to erect the bumps, we will erect our own and disrupt operations on this road,\u201d he said.\n<\/p>\n<p>Embu County Commissioner Abdulahi Galgalo, who visited the scene, convinced the operators to clear the road and allow smooth flow of traffic. <\/p>\n<p>Traffic flow resumed without confrontation with the police.\u00a0\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.standardmedia.co.ke\/article\/2001434151\/boda-boda-rider-woman-and-her-two-children-die-in-road-crash\">Source: The Standard Media Kenya<\/a> <a \"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scene of Embu accident that claimed four lives. [Muriithi Mugo, Standard] Four people have died after a G4S van collided with a motorcycle. The victims, a boda boda operator with his three pillion passengers \u2014 a woman and her two children \u2014 died on the spot. Julius Kyumbure, the Embu West Sub-county Police Commander, confirmed [&hellip;]<\/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-915458","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-headlines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/915458","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=915458"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/915458\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=915458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=915458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=915458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}