(FILES) This file photo taken on November 14, 2016 shows French gendarmes and forensics working at the site of a crash between a truck carrying sugar beets and a school bus in Bavincourt, near Arras, northern France. The truck driver was sentenced to three and a half years in prison, by the criminal court on April 26, 2017. / AFP PHOTO / DENIS CHARLET
At least 26 people were killed and many others injured in a head-on crash between a bus and a truck on the highway between Nairobi and Kenya’s second city Mombasa, police said Tuesday.
“It was a very bad head-on collision. We lost 26 people in the accident,” Leonard Kimaiyo, police chief for the southern town of Kibwezi said.
Another senior officer said the bus, heading to Mombasa, was overtaking several vehicles when it collided with an oil tanker.
Kenya has a poor road safety record, with up to 3 000 people killed each year according to police. The World Health Organization puts the toll at 12 000.
In December at least 40 people were killed an accident around 100 kilometres (60 miles) northwest of Nairobi, in which a tanker smashed into several other vehicles before exploding.
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