The Sunday September 28, 2025 morning accident at Kikopey area on Nairobi-Nakuru highway claimed 16 lives from one family in a Muranga village.
The victims included grandparents, their daughters, a nephew, and an uncle.
The victims were among 17 family members traveling in a 14-seater matatu headed to Nakuru for a family visit.
The trip, meant to unite relatives and bring cheer to ailing kin, ended in tragedy when the matatu they were in collided head-on with a trailer along the busy Nakuru–Nairobi highway.
A bereaved member of the family Patrick Mburu recounted the painful toll.
“In that vehicle were my parents, Elija and Lydiah Mburu, my sisters Pauline, Naomi, Joyce, and Catherine, my nephew, and my uncle,” he said when journalists visited the family on Monday.
Police said 13 people died on the spot while three more succumbed to injuries raising the toll to 16.
The hired matatu was driven by Elijah Mburu, a grandson in the family.
For Rodovic Gikonyo, another family member, he was lucky to be alive as he revealed he was meant to join the ill-fated trip but stayed behind due to an urgent matter concerning his daughter’s education.
“Had it not been for that emergency, we too would have been in that vehicle,” he said.
Another family in the matatu also suffered a tragedy.
Steven Gicharu lost his wife, son and daughter in the crash.
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