Seven people among them primary school pupils sustained serious injuries after a Moi Girls Kamusinga school bus was involved in an accident at Bandari area less than a kilometre from Mwamba market along the busy Eldoret–Webuye highway in Lugari Sub County.
According to an eyewitness, the accident occurred as the bus was coming from Mwamba market towards Kipkaren. The bus driver was attempting to overtake both a motorbike and a truck that was ahead when abruptly the motorbike rider crossed in front of the bus also trying to overtake the truck.
The driver swerved to avoid knocking the motorist before losing control, veered off the road landing in a ditch. Five pupils, a teacher and the bus driver sustained serious injuries
before they were rescued and rushed to Moi Teaching and Referral Hospital Eldoret.
The bus which was on its way from Eldoret was ferrying 55 pupils and seven teachers of Phim primary school Kimilili who were returning from an education tour when the accident occurred.