At least 22 Kenyans killed as bus collides with truck on highway near Nairobi

At least 22 people were killed, and several injured after a bus collided with a truck on Kenya's main highway on Sunday, police said.The passengers were returning from a funeral when the accident happened, AP reported.Makueni County commissioner Abdullahi Khalif said the death toll could rise.The circumstances of the crash remain unclear. Speeding and poor road conditions have previously been cited as contributing factors in road accidents in Kenya.Kenya's National Transport and Safety Authority (NTSA) said the stretch of the highway where the crash took place is a designated "accident black spot", and that recommendations had been made to address safety concerns.Another incident on the same routeThe latest crash came three weeks after 17 people died in another accident on the same highway, which links the capital, Nairobi, with the coastal city of Mombasa.Police said that collision occurred when a truck driver tried and failed to overtake another truck, which led to a crash involving several vehicles, including a van carrying pilgrims. The van's driver and 16 passengers, most of them women, died at the scene, police said.Al Jazeera, citing NTSA figures, reported that Kenya recorded 5,009 road traffic deaths last year, while 2,150 deaths were reported in the first six months of 2026.You use AI every day. Now get your AI Quotient. Take the AIQ test.