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A Kenyan driver whose ill-fated trailer rolled the escarpment at Mai Mahiu while ferrying luxurious vehicles has chillingly opened up on the last moments before the accident. The driver narrated last moments before accident. Yussuf Hassan narrated that he was en route to Uganda from Mombasa, where he picked up the new vehicles when he encountered the terrible accident that also killed his co-driver. Speaking to Paxson TV at the accident scene, Hassan said trouble started when a matatu from the Narok direction overlapped at the narrow Mai Mahiu stretch. Hassan said he hit his brakes immediately to avoid a collision with the matatu. However, his trailer started swinging from one side to the other, signalling an imminent crash.
“I immediately told my colleague we would crash as the trailer swung vigorously due to the force. Before I could finish my sentence, the trailer veered off the road, and we started rolling downhill,” he recalled. After it stopped rolling, he managed to survive, but sadly, when he called out to his co-driver, he mattered a few words and then died. “I tried telling him we must leave the wreckage, but he could not understand me. He died a moment later, and I covered his body with a leso,” he narrated. Hassan said he tried asking for help from a few locals who witnessed the crash.”However, they were very harsh. I wanted them to help me with my colleague’s body, but they instead stole the tyres of the new vehicles I was ferrying. I came up here and saw a police officer who helped me,” he narrated.
by Racheal Nyaguthie
