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Thursday, March 2, 2023 –A Matatu vehicle is on the spot for dropping primary school learners on a busy dangerous city highway and speeding off.
The Thursday March 2 video shows a horrifying scene as the Public Service Vehicle PSV drop the little learners on the highway; who start scampering for safety as vehicles criss-cross the one-way road.
The three-minute long video was captured on Thika Super Highway which hosts high-speed vehicle both to and from Nairobi Town.
The video shows the students crawl under the road barriers after just being dropped in the middle of the killer highway; and this leaves a section of them stranded and crying, helplessly.
“Matatu dropping pupils on the highway, at Kahawa Wendani Barracks,” a witness reported on Ma3Route Twitter page that captures accident scenes on major Kenyan highways.
In the clip which Homenews.co.ke has seen, the about five pupils held each other by hand as they matched out of the road while, on the other hand, onlookers watched in total disbelief and tension.
“This is very dangerous. Matatu doing this,” one motorist commented as heard in the viral clip.
At the same time, the rains were pouring down leaving the children’s lives hanging on a slim thread hence creating a moment of nerve-racking evening.
Those who have seen the video wondered how the matatu driver would decide to dump small learners on a dangerous city highway and, to make the matters even worse, police based at nearby Roysambu market do completely nothing.
“That is at Roysambu and police are at the round just meters away just collecting bribes. Where is @KURAroads on this?” Daniel Kihara exclaimed.
Parents were also not spared in the social media debate in which users seemed to also blame them for their open negligence.
“The conductor has done a good job anyway. Parents and teachers need to take more responsibility,” Robert Kamau commented.
On Thika Super highway alone, National Transport and Safety Authority NTSA records show that atleast 45 persons lose lives in a hit and run carnage, monthly.
Thika road served about 60,000 vehicles a day. The number has since ballooned to over 150,000 in the last decade, according to various studies.
