Survivor Of Salgaa Accident Narrates Matatu Passengers Were Heading For Burial When Crash Happened

• Survivors of the Salgaa road crash have suggested the driver of the ill-fated matatu might have been asleep
• The PSV belonging to the Eldoret Crossroads Sacco hit the rear of a truck at the aforementioned spot along the Eldoret - Nakuru Highway killing five people on the spot
• Eight passengers survived; the 14-seater vehicle was ferrying mourners from Eldoret to Makueni

Kai Eli, a journalist at TUKO.co.ke, brings more than three years of experience covering politics and current affairs in Kenya.

One of the survivors of the Salgaa road crash has given her account of the events leading to the accident.

A public service vehicle belonging to the Eldoret Crossroads Sacco hit the rear of a truck on the dawn of Saturday, May 25, killing five people on the spot.

Salgaa crash survivor speaks

The matatu had been hired to ferry mourners from Eldoret to Makueni.

Speaking to the press while recuperating from the Nakuru County Teaching and Referral Hospital, Mercy Murgor recalled the driver going quiet, this arousing their attention.

"The journey was well and we were talking in the vehicle until we reached Salgaa when we observed the driver had gone quiet. We then resolved to engage him as he appeared to be asleep," she said.

Before they engaged him further, the vehicle was already off the road after hitting the truck.

Nakuru county police commander Samuel Ndanyi confirmed the accident, noting that the ill-fated matatu was headed to Nakurtu from Eldoret.

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He said the driver of the truck fled the accident scene, but officers were already probing the matter.

Ndanyi revealed that the deceased at the scene included four women and a man.

He added that the bodies of the deceased had been moved to the county funeral home awaiting identification.

At the hospital, all the survivors were confirmed to be out of danger.

Doctors said they suffered cuts and fractures, some of which would be mended in the theatre.

"Four of them had fractures, two had cuts in the head. We took two to the theatre for the fixing of the fractures. They're in stable condition," a medic told the press.

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The survivors of the Salgaa road crash were rushed to the Nakuru county hospital.

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