{"id":122216,"date":"2025-09-28T15:04:06","date_gmt":"2025-09-28T15:04:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/index.php\/2025\/09\/28\/13-killed-in-gilgil-crash-2-children-among-passengers-seriously-injured\/"},"modified":"2025-09-28T15:04:06","modified_gmt":"2025-09-28T15:04:06","slug":"13-killed-in-gilgil-crash-2-children-among-passengers-seriously-injured","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/13-killed-in-gilgil-crash-2-children-among-passengers-seriously-injured\/","title":{"rendered":"13 killed in Gilgil crash, 2 children among passengers seriously injured"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>NAKURU, Kenya, Sep 28 \u2013 Thirteen people died on Sunday afternoon in a grisly road accident near Kikopey, Gilgil, along the Nakuru\u2013Nairobi highway.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Nakuru County Police Commander Emmanuel Opuru said the victims were travelling in a 14-seater PSV headed to Nakuru when it collided head-on with a semi-trailer truck.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe matatu was overtaking and then it rammed into the trailer causing 13 fatalities and three others seriously injured,\u201d Opuru said confirming the incident.<\/p>\n<p>Two children were among three passengers seriously injured in the incident.<\/p>\n<p>Police moved the bodies were moved to Gilgil Sub-County Hospital mortuary, while the injured are receiving treatment at the same facility.<\/p>\n<p>Preliminary reports indicated that the victims had hired the matatu in Nairobi to attend a family function.<\/p>\n<p>Police have launched investigations into the crash, which caused a major traffic snarl-up on the busy highway.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NAKURU, Kenya, Sep 28 \u2013 Thirteen people died on Sunday afternoon in a grisly road accident near Kikopey, Gilgil, along the Nakuru\u2013Nairobi highway. Nakuru County Police Commander Emmanuel Opuru said the victims were travelling in a 14-seater PSV headed to Nakuru when it collided head-on with a semi-trailer truck. \u201cThe matatu was overtaking and then [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-122216","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122216","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=122216"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122216\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}