More than 3,000 people have so far died this year due to road accidents and property worth billions of shillings lost in the process.
This was disclosed by NTSA Director General Francis Major during the launch of this year's ‘Bamburi Road Safety Awareness Campaign’ at Bamburi Cement Company in Athi River on Monday.
"Many more people are maimed and suffer permanent disability for the rest of their lives, drivers who over speed, drive carelessly or under influence of alcohol are definitely not responsible people," said Major.
He said Kenyan health facilities were overstretched as they had to handle road crash victims arguing that, the situation compromised the hospitals abilities to manage and handle other ailments and emergencies.
The officer said motorcyclists who drive without protective gear and overload and pedestrians who cross the road at undesignated points were all preventable acts that must be looked into.
Various measures put in place by the government to address road safety have yielded positive results with the total reduction of fatalities at 10 percent.
This is according to Transport and Infrastructure Principal Secretary Nduva Muli, who added that fatalities of passengers in public service vehicles had equally reduced by 25 percent over the past one year.
Muli argued that not all Kenyans saw and appreciated the government's efforts to reduce fatalities and completely achieve zero road accidents.
"We have encountered numerous court cases against the regulations in an attempt to block this positive effort," said Muli.
He assured Kenyans that the regulations which the government developed on the industry were benchmarked against global best practice and aimed at making Kenyan roads sustainably safer for the benefit of all.