Police vehicle hits, kills woman in Nakuru

A middle-aged woman succumbed to injuries while her son is recuperating at the Nakuru Provincial General Hospital (PGH) after a police land cruiser allegedly hit their motorbike from behind.

Addressing the media, Atanus Kihungi Njage, the deceased’s husband, said his son was accompanying her mother to check on their relative at the hospital before the Naishi Police Station land cruiser rammed them.

“I am very pained to lose my wife due to the reckless actions of the officers who should have been keen enough to avoid the accident. They hit my family members and threw them off,” he said.

He further said that, after knocking the two, the officers picked then picked them up and drove them all the way to the Nakuru PGH using the dry weather roads instead of rushing them to the nearby Njoro sub-county hospital for first aid management.

Dr Munyiri Kaniaru, who is in charge of the emergency room at Nakuru PGH, said that the deceased lost a lot of blood after the accident and had several fractures.

Njoro OCPD Isaac Odumbe confirmed the incident and said that investigations have since commenced into the incident to enable appropriate action.