A woman died and two other people were seriously injured Tuesday evening in an accident involving a military truck and two lorries at the Juja flyover in Juja Town along Thika Road.
An eyewitness said that a lorry that had a puncture stalled in the middle of the highway leading to the accident.
"A lorry 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 quoted by the Daily Nation.
The eyewitness added that after hitting the military truck, the speeding lorry then hit the stalled lorry from behind and stopped. The accident that happened at around 5:30 pm caused a three-hour traffic snarl up along at the busy highway prompting a speedy deployment of traffic police officers.
According to the eyewitness, the soldier driving the military truck escaped unhurt but the driver of the speeding lorry broke his legs.
“We 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," the eyewitness said.
Sources alleged that the deceased belonged to the National Youth Service and had been offered a lift in the military truck.