Woman rep injured in car accident
Nyamira Woman representative Alice Chae in an ambulance. She was involved in a car accident on November 3, 2016.PHOTO | GEORGE SAYAGIE | NATION MEDIA GROUP
What you need to know:
- The MP was travelling with her driver and bodyguard when the incident occurred at Duka Moja on the Nairobi-Narok highway.
Nyamira Woman representative Alice Chae and two others have been injured in a car accident today evening.
According to witnesses, the car veered off the road crushing into a nearby shamba injuring Ms Chae, her bodyguard and driver at Duka Moja on the Narok-Maimahiu road
“All the three were injured but their conditions are not badly of. The women rep suffered injury to her hip,” a medical officer who carried out emergency evacuation of the trio said.
She had attended the questioning of former Devolution Cabinet Secretary Anne Waiguru by the Parliamentary Accounts Committee and was headed to Kisii for a fundraising.
The event was scheduled for Friday at Riomoro in Kemera Ward.
She is admitted at Cortege Hospital in Narok.
Dr Soita Allan has said the MP has received treatment and is in stable condition.
The Ntulele Sub Base report said the accident happened at 2130hrs.
The Toyota Prado was being driven by Philip Ngorikie Sangara, 35, from Nairobi towards Narok. He was slightly injured on the upper lip.
The bodyguard, Dennis Kambi aged 30 years, escaped unhurt.
The report further indicated that the driver "lost control of the motor vehicle due to slippery road surface as the area was experiencing heavy downpour, thus skidded off the road before stopping 50 meters off the road on the left side as one faces Narok direction".
