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Members of the public view the wreck of a mercedes car which former Lugari MP Cyrus Jirongo was driving before it was involved in a head on collision with a Climax Bus killing him on the spot in Karai, Naivasha along the Nairobi-Nakuru highway on Saturday morning.[Antony Gitonga,Standard]
Every December, Kenya turns into one long road home. Families travel at night, matatus race against time, buses overflow with hope, and drivers push limits in the name of arrival.
Yet December is also when our roads betray us most brutally. By early December 2025, more than 4,450 people had already lost their lives on Kenyan roads, surpassing last year’s total before Christmas itself arrived. That means dozens of families will enter the New Year not with celebration, but with silence and grief.
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