Two people have been left dead after two separate road accidents involving a lorry in Machakos county.
In the first incident, police say a lorry driver ran over a passenger and killed him on the spot before running away from the scene.
However, angry hawk-eyed boda boda riders who witnessed the accident asked him to stop as they tried to make him turn himself in.
As he attempted to flee from the angry boda boda riders who demanded him to stop, the lorry driver rammed into the back of a saloon car causing him to lose control of the lorry and swerve out of his lane.
Consequently, the driver hit on an oncoming Mercedes Benz trailer, causing a fire.
The driver of the Mercedes hurriedly vacated the vehicle before it was reduced to ashes, however, the lorry driver who was escaping from the boda boda riders died as he attempted to break out of his vehicle.
He burnt along with his lorry while two boda boda riders at the scene sustained burns on their legs after their motorcycles caught fire.
The two have since been rushed to Machakos Level V hospital where they are receiving treatment while the body of the lorry driver and his victim were moved to the facility’s morgue.
“The unknown driver of the lorry was trapped in the cabin and burnt beyond recognition. Two stationary motorcycles near the scene were also burned alongside their riders who sustained burns on their legs,” the police report reads in parts.
