Travellers spend night in cold after trailer blocks highway
Tens of travellers spent their Sunday night in the cold along the Mombasa highway following an accident involving a trailer
This is after a trailer, involved in an accident blocked the busy highway at the Makindu-Kiboko area, police said.
Efforts by officials to clear the scene did not bear any fruits after road users overlapped causing more chaos at the scene, police said.
Choppers heading to an official event in the area overflew the site and communicated the mess there, officials said amid calls for more resources to address it.
Mombasa highway is a crucial link as it handles thousands of vehicles including those headed for Uganda, Rwanda, DRC, South Sudan and Burundi.
The Sunday night- Monday morning snarl-up was witnessed ahead of President William Ruto’s visit to ...