{"id":79122,"date":"2024-08-16T08:13:29","date_gmt":"2024-08-16T08:13:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/index.php\/2024\/08\/16\/ex-minister-bett-2-others-injured-in-awasi-kericho-road-accident\/"},"modified":"2024-08-16T08:13:29","modified_gmt":"2024-08-16T08:13:29","slug":"ex-minister-bett-2-others-injured-in-awasi-kericho-road-accident","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/ex-minister-bett-2-others-injured-in-awasi-kericho-road-accident\/","title":{"rendered":"Ex-Minister Bett, 2 others injured in Awasi-Kericho road accident"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>KISUMU, Kenya, Aug 16 \u2013 Former Roads Minister Franklin Bett has been admitted in hospital following a road accident along the Awasi-Kericho road in Kisumu.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>According to police, Bett suffered a head injury during the accident that involved Bett\u2019s four-wheel drive car and a tractor that was carrying sugarcane but is in stable condition. <\/p>\n<p>The report indicated that two other people were injured during the incident which occured last night at around 7.00pm.<\/p>\n<p>The driver of the tractor did not stop at the scene.<\/p>\n<p>Police say the accident happened when Bett\u2019s driver rammed onto the tractor as they both were headed the same way. <\/p>\n<p>It is believed that Bett\u2019s driver did not notice the tractor was ahead of him as it did not have any signage.<\/p>\n<p>He will be interrogated for more information.<\/p>\n<p>The tractor did not stop after the accident as the driver proceeded to his unknown destination.<\/p>\n<p>According to police, Bett sustained a deep cut on the forehead while two other female adults who were in the car and the driver sustained slight injuries.<\/p>\n<p>The former minister was rushed to Awasi Catholic Hospital in stable condition and later referred to Aga Khan Hospital Kisumu for further management.<\/p>\n<p>Police visited the scene and towed Bett\u2019s car to the station awaiting inspection.<\/p>\n<p>Such accidents involving tractors carrying sugarcane have been a menace amid calls on authorities to stop the movements, especially at night.<\/p>\n<p>Most of the tractors do not have signage to warn other road users and the sugarcane they carry obstruct many warnings.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KISUMU, Kenya, Aug 16 \u2013 Former Roads Minister Franklin Bett has been admitted in hospital following a road accident along the Awasi-Kericho road in Kisumu. According to police, Bett suffered a head injury during the accident that involved Bett\u2019s four-wheel drive car and a tractor that was carrying sugarcane but is in stable condition. The [&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-79122","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\/79122","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=79122"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79122\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}