Deadly road: One month, three accidents and 41 killed in Nairobi-Mombasa highway crashes

Fatal road crashes expose the dangers facing motorists on the busy transport corridor.

The wreckage of the bus that collided with a lorry at Kanga in Mtito Andei on October 25, 2026. Twenty-two people were killed in the crash.

The deaths of 22 people in a bus-truck collision at Kanga in Makueni County have renewed concerns over the safety of the Nairobi-Mombasa highway, where two major crashes in October alone have claimed 39 lives.

The Sunday, October 25, tragedy came barely three weeks after 17 people, most of them Catholic pilgrims, died in a multiple-vehicle crash at Salama, also in Makueni County.

In just one month, 41 people have lost lives in three tragic accidents on the road.

The incidents have exposed the dangers facing motorists on the busy transport corridor, where heavy trucks, passenger buses, private cars and matatus share a road that serves millions of travellers and carries cargo to and from the Port of Mombasa.

Source: Nation