Eldoret: Four killed in head-on crash involving school bus

Four people, including a four-and-a-half-year-old girl, were killed in a road accident on Friday night after a private vehicle collided head-on with a school bus at Mutwot area along the Kapsabet-Eldoret Road.

Police reports indicate that the private vehicle, a Toyota Hiace, was heading towards Eldoret from Kapsabet when its driver lost control, swerving into the opposite lane and colliding head-on with the Cheptabach Secondary School bus, an Isuzu, registration no. KDA 911Y, enroute to Kapsabet.  

Four people died during the 8:00 PM collision.

“As a result, the following died on the spot, adult male driver, male passenger, adult male passenger, female 4.5 years old child passenger,” a police report documenting the incident reads.  

“An unknown number of passengers in both vehicles rushed to different hospitals in the region scene visited and all necessary action taken.”

The bodies of the deceased persons were subsequently taken to Samaritan Funeral Home in Kapsabet pending identification and post-mortem.

The vehicles' wreckages were also ferried to Mosoriot Police Station awaiting inspection.