At least 17 people were left nursing serious injuries after a bus crash at Migaa along the Nakuru-Eldoret Highway on the morning of Sunday, October 18.
The accident, according to preliminary reports, occurred around 12:30 am , less than a kilometer from the famous Sachangwan Centre.
Confirming the incident, the Kenya Red Cross indicated that the 60-seater vehicle was ferrying mourners at the time of the accident.
“A vehicle carrying mourners from Kisumu crashed at Migaa along the Nakuru-Eldoret Highway, injuring 17,” the organisation said.
An image of the Nakuru Eldoret highway
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The agency’s Nakuru Branch team have since responded alongside police officers, Molo ambulance teams and members of the local community in a coordinated rescue operations.
At the time of this publication, the cause of the crash had yet to be established, although by Sunday morning, traffic was flowing normally along the highway which is largely dominated by commercial vehicles, including heavy duty trucks.
The injured victims have since been rushed to the Nakuru County Referral and Teaching Hospital (NCRTH) to receive treatment.
The latest incident adds to a spate of serious road crashes along the Nakuru-Eldoret highway, particularly the Migaa, Salgaa and Sachangwan sections.
As recently as in September 2026, five people lost their lives while eight others sustained serious injuries when a speeding matatu crashed into a stationary trailer at the Twins Bridge black spot along the highway.
Police attributed the crash to speeding and poor weather conditions.
The Sachangwan crash comes amid a weekend of fatal road accidents across the country, with four people killed in a head-on collision involving two matatus at Maembe Mbili in Nyakwere, along the Katito-Kendu Bay Road in Homa Bay County on Friday night.
The crash left 21 other people injured, including one who was in critical condition at Russia Hospital. The injured were initially taken to Pap Onditi Sub-County Hospital before being transferred for further treatment.
In a separate incident, passengers travelling on a long-distance bus escaped with minor injuries after the vehicle collided with a sand-carrying lorry along the Nairobi-Nakuru Highway.
Aftermath of an accident involving a Guardian Angel bus and a lorry along the Nairobi-Nakuru Highway on Friday, October 16, 2026.
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