A Tuesday road accident along the Thika Road left a woman dead after a military truck collided with two lorries at the Juja flyover in Juja Town.
The 5:30 pm accident caused a long traffic snarl up along the highway and prompted quick deployment of traffic police to the area.
According to eye witnesses, two people sustained serious injuries and were rushed to hospital.
The accident occured after the military truck hit into a stalled lorry that was awaiting a puncture to be repaired.
"One of the two lorries [had] earlier stalled on the highway below the Juja flyover after getting a puncture. Moments later a speeding military truck approached the scene followed by another speeding lorry. The soldier driving the military truck seemingly attempted to evade the stalled lorry but was in the process hit from behind by another lorry and ended up losing control, hitting the guard rails and overturning in the adjacent lane," said an eyewitness as reported by Nation.
After it hit the military truck, the speeding lorry again hit the stalled lorry from behind before it finally stopped.
"The driver of the speeding lorry broke his legs while the soldier driving the military truck escaped unhurt and moved swiftly through the driver's window to pull out his male colleague from the overturned truck. We then rushed to lift the truck's cabin in order to remove the female passenger who had sat in the middle seat but [we] found her head crushed. She had died on the spot," added the witness.
Nation, however, reports that police prevented the media from taking pictures or videos of the scene.