Two family members have lost their lives while one person is fighting for his life at Nandi hills hospital after involving in a road accident along Chemelil-Muhoroni road at Chebarus area.
According to the eye witness, the two family members from Matema and Kimolonik in Tindiret Constituency met their deaths while going home at night where the motorbike they were using to travel on crushed head on with a trailer that was ferrying sugarcane, dying instantly while one survived with injuries.
Some of the eye witnesses who spoke to journalists decried rampant accidents caused by sugarcane trailers along Chemelil road demanding that transportation of sugarcane at night by heavy vehicles should be banned as a way of reducing and minimizing loss of lives through such incidences.
They also demanded that the trailers should have reflectors at night to assist travelers or motorbike riders see them on the road at night.
The bodies of the deceased were retrieved from the scene of the disaster and taken to Nandi hills hospital mortuary to await postmortem.