The accident scene. [Photo/Moses Masoud]

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It was yet another sad morning on the Kenyan roads after a car collided with a lorry on Mombasa-Nairobi road on Tuesday.

Three people died on the spot after a salon car they were traveling in was involved in a head-on with a truck at Manyani area, Taita Taveta County along Nairobi-Mombasa road.

The 7 am incident happened near the Manyani maximum security prison when the driver of the saloon car tried to overtake another vehicle only to come face to face with a Nairobi-bound truck.

Voi base traffic commander Silas Wanyonyi confirmed the incident saying all three occupants of the saloon car died on the spot while the truck driver ran away.

Police are already at the accident scene remove the bodies still stuck in the car.