One Dead, Many Injured After Greenline Bus Involved in Horror Crash. Locals Slam Slow Ambulance Response

A deadly road crash happened early Sunday morning, July 20, in Bukembe, Bungoma County, leaving one person dead and many others badly hurt. The accident involved a Greenline bus carrying more than 65 passengers from Nairobi to Bungoma, a saloon car, a trailer, and a lorry. 

The crash happened around 4am near Roja Village Resort. Eyewitnesses say it started when a saloon car crashed head-on into a bread delivery truck. The driver of the saloon car died on the spot, and a woman who was a passenger in that car was seriously injured and rushed to the hospital. 

The Greenline bus swerved off the road and fell on its side after trying to avoid the collision. Videos and photos from the scene showed passengers screaming and trying to get out of the wreck. Some people were helped by locals and fellow passengers to escape through the windows. 

Sadly, emergency services arrived late. Ambulances only reached the scene around 7am, nearly three hours after the crash. Many of the injured were rushed to nearby hospitals on motorbikes. Locals and rescue workers criticized the slow response from local health services. 

This stretch of road, Bungoma-Webuye Highway, is known as a blackspot. Just last month, on June 3, several police officers died after their patrol car collided with a trailer at Matisi, along the same road. The police car was totally crushed. 

Kenya has been struggling with deadly road accidents in 2025. The National Transport and Safety Authority (NTSA) reports that between January and March this year, 1,139 people died in road crashes. That’s slightly fewer than the 1,166 deaths recorded during the same period in 2024. 

As more lives are lost on our roads, Kenyans are asking tough questions: When will the roads become safer? And why do ambulances arrive so late?