December 1, 1994: Thirty-five people dies and 31 others seriously injured in a fatal road accident on Thika Road in Nairobi. Thirty four of the dead were Prisons’ warders. The other casualty was a passenger in a truck into which the lorry carrying the warders smashed. Only one person escaped unhurt. In a statement issued in Parliament in the afternoon, the Minister for Home Affairs, Mr. Francis Polis Lotodo, said the accident occurred when the front wheel of the lorry carrying 64 people burst as it descended an incline towards the Broadways bridge near the Kenya Breweries factory plant. The lorry, which was headed for Nairobi, hurtled across the ditch between the two carriageways to collide with a trailer heading towards Thika.

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