[An accident scene in Garissa town. A boda boda rider was killed and his two passengers injured in an accident involving two commercial motorcycles.] (youtube.com)A boda boda rider was killed and his two passengers injured in an accident involving two commercial motorcycles in Garissa town.
The boda boda cyclist died at the accident scene along the busy Garissa-Wajir highway six days after three other people perished at the same spot near Garissa Livestock Market. Witnesses said the man died when two motorcycles collided head-on during the Friday incident.
“The rider who died was my colleague, he had taken his brother’s motorcycle two weeks ago to help his family and his ailing brother before he was involved in the accident,” Ibrahim Lukutai, a bodaboda operator in Garissa town said as quoted by the North Eastern Journal.
He said it was unfortunate the man lost his life leaving a young family behind. The black spot popularly known as Garissa’s ‘Junction of Death’ is said to have claimed hundreds of lives including pedestrians, riders and motorists.
During the incident in which three people were killed when two vehicles collided, one of the victims was a 17-year-old boy who was going to school.
The Form Three student at Young Muslim Secondary School was in company of three other students when the accident that claimed his life occurred.
A resident, Mohamed Mohamud said of the killer junction: “We have lost innocent people as a result of accidents along this highway.
The government should do something to address road carnage here.”
Eye witnesses said the boda boda who died had tried to overtake a vehicle that was cruising in front of him before he hit an oncoming motorcycle. Police blamed the incident on careless riding.