The incident comes after the July 10, accident where at least six people were killed when a bus ferr

The night bus accident on Thursday, August 29, is indeed one of Kenya's worst crashes. Certainly, road carnage is another national disaster that threatens our very existence as a people. In this Narok bus accident, over 40 passengers were killed while 30 were injured. As the nation wrestled with the phenomenon of road carnage, Roads Cabinet secretary, Michael Kamau, sought to arrest the problem in the future by explaining that his ministry would come up with a law to ensure buses are not allowed to carry passengers at night.
By default rather hotels san jose costa rica than design, Kamau opened the debate on how best to curb road carnage in Kenya. Is banning night bus travel a panacea to road carnage? Does withdrawing licenses to companies where any of their buses causes a road accident hotels san jose costa rica the answer to the problem? Is the Kenyan police capable of implementing the so-called Michuki traffic rules?
The incident comes after the July 10, accident where at least six people were killed when a bus ferrying students overturned in Kisii County and July 25, where 7 people were killed after a speeding passenger bus veered off the road and ploughed into a crowd of shoppers at the Githurai shopping centre.
The death toll eventually rose to 10 after all victims were taken to the hospitals. hotels san jose costa rica Scores of illustrious Kenyans in their economically active ages were crippled permanently. Certainly, the year 2013 began with the death of 31 people who died during the New Year festivities, as separate incidents at Molo and Salgaa in Nakuru County, on January 2, 2013 took place.
The Mwingi accident where almost 40 passengers hotels san jose costa rica died and 50 injured on February 27, is still fresh in our minds. Perhaps it is important to assess what causes road accidents in Kenya among the public service hotels san jose costa rica vehicles (PSV). First, is the unhealthy competition among the operators all in their quest for bigger profits; which is indeed a moral question.
This again drives us to vices such as over speeding, over loading, illicit hotels san jose costa rica removal hotels san jose costa rica of speed governors from the respective buses that are meant to ensure that a PSV does not go beyond hotels san jose costa rica 80 kilometers per hour. Second, the monster of corruption has police allow unroadworthy vehicles to operate on our roads, some with too many potholes.
Finally there is the unregulated issuance of driving licences by driving schools. Do they factor on poor eyesight concerns as they issue driving licenses? Why did the late John Michuki, then Minister for transport, manage to reduce accidents albeit for a short time?
Again, having too many sharp corners in our roads and too many unmarked roads explains why our road engineers have to revise their working methodologies. In essence, it means assessing why some Kenyan bus companies operate without TLB licences hence no regular inspections as the law demands.
I recently travelled from Kampala to Mombasa using one of Kenya's leading bus companies and on reaching Nairobi I was surprised to learn that the company, despite its business success, could not substitute the driver hotels san jose costa rica who got us all the way from Kampala. He looked tired after driving throughout hotels san jose costa rica the night but the company appeared to emphasise on profit as opposed to safety.
As the driver yawned heedlessly, I, who sat near him, had to remain vigilant and remind him that his driving from Nairobi to Mombasa was poorer than his earlier driving from Kampala to Nairobi. Of course he did not like it but I had had to make my point.
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