A painful death on the Southern Bypass

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Social media users on Thursday morning, May 6 suggested poor lighting on the Southern Bypass contributed to the accident. [Courtesy]

A middle-aged man died on Wednesday night, May 5, after his vehicle rammed a lorry on the rear side on the Southern Bypass in Nairobi.
Police say the driver of the BMW X5 was speeding, when the vehicle smashed into the lorry, crushing the driver’s compartment into small pieces which stuck under the underride guard of the commercial truck.
Earlier online reports suggested the BMW driver had ploughed into a stalled lorry, a claim which has since been refuted by Lang’ata OCPD Benjamin Mwanthi.
“We suspect the driver was speeding on the fast lane, when he crashed into the rear part of the loaded lorry,” Mwanthi told The Standard.
Following the crash, the driver died at the scene, and his body was taken to City Mortuary.
The mangled wreckage of the BMW was towed to Lang’ata Police Station.
Social media users on Thursday morning, May 6 suggested poor lighting on the Southern Bypass contributed to the accident.
A senior police officer, however, told The Standard that the lighting system on a section of the highway is controlled to ensure aircraft taking off from the nearby Wilson Airport are not misdirected.

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