Close to 1,700 people have been killed since January in separate road accidents in the country.
This is according to the latest data from the National Transport and Safety Authority (NTSA).
The authority said this was however a decrease compared to last year with ongoing road safety campaigns chipping in in stemming the accidents.
According to the data, 1,679 people have died from January to date with pedestrians leading at 571 and motorcycle operators at 449.
This is however a drop of four percent compared to the same period last year where 1,756 people had died across the country’s road.
“As from January this year to date, we have lost a total of 1,679 people to road accidents compared to 1,756 in the same period last year with pedestrians and motorcyclists leading,” NTSA said Wednesday, May 24.
A total of 8,098 people had been involved in accidents this year compared to 7,848 in the same span of time last year.
This came as the authority partnered with ten counties across major roads on a road safety campaign targeting to reduce the number of fatal accidents in the country.
NTSA Director-General George Njao said they had increased signage along the major roads and continued improvement of the roads by fixing potholes.
Njao said statistics indicated that all motorists were affected by the fatal accidents adding that the authority was working with other stakeholders to address this.
He was in Naivasha during a meeting with the counties where he revealed the authority was rolling out intelligence road management and safety system targeting PSVs.
“This system will be able to monitor and track PSV driver’s speed and we shall be rolling it out in the next couple of days,” he said.
Under the program with the counties, he said that NTSA would help them come up with transport committees and address the rising cases of accidents involving boda-boda operators.
“We shall be sharing our proposals with the Council of Governors on areas where counties can improve in addressing issues of road safety at the grassroots level,” he said.