One person died on the spot after being run over by a truck at Kaburengu junction along the Eldoret-Webuye highway.
According to eyewitnesses the accident occurred after the truck which was over speeding from Webuye towards Eldoret turned abruptly at the junction and headed towards the Kakamega route before it knocked and ran over a business woman who sells tomatoes and onions at the junction.
The truck then proceeded and hit a Nissan Matatu which had stopped to pick passengers at the junction with the matatu occupants escaping with minor injuries.
Also two motorbikes that had been parked at the junction were damaged by the truck.
Residents have played off the driver’s claim that the vehicle developed brakes failure thus causing the accident.
“We cannot borrow his excuses that the vehicle had brake problems since he was driving towards the hill, if he could be descending we would have listened to him,” said the residents.