Kenyan woman, 25, dies in road crash in US
Grace Kabuti Maina died after her car rolled over on Interstate 95 in Wakefield, Massachusetts, USA on Monday Morning. PHOTO | COURTESY | NATION MEDIA GROUP
What you need to know:
- A statement released by Massachusetts State police on Monday evening said Ms Kabuti was driving a Nissan Altima at 6:39am when she swerved and rolled over in the left lane.
- Ms Kabuti was transported to Lahey Hospital and Medical Centre in Burlington, where she was later pronounced dead.
- A passenger who rode in the car with the deceased and who authorities only identified as a 22-year-old Lowell man, was transported to Beverly Hospital where he was treated for minor injuries.
A 25-year-old Kenyan woman died on Monday morning in a grisly road accident in Lowell, Massachusetts, United States.
Grace Kabuti, aka Shiro Maina, was a victim of a rollover crash on Interstate 95 North, in the city of Wakefield, MA.
A statement released by Massachusetts State police on Monday evening said Ms Kabuti was driving a Nissan Altima at 6:39am when she swerved and rolled over in the left lane.
Paramedics and police arrived at the scene soon after the accident, which caused a traffic snarl-up as preliminary investigations were being conducted.
Ms Kabuti was transported to Lahey Hospital and Medical Centre in Burlington, where she was later pronounced dead.
A passenger who rode in the car with the deceased and who authorities only identified as a 22-year-old Lowell man, was transported to Beverly Hospital where he was treated for minor injuries.
UNDER INVESTIGATION
By the time of filing this report, the cause of the accident remained under investigation.
“We are investigating the real cause of this accident and cannot comment any further right now,” a spokesperson from Danvers Barracks told the Nation by phone on Tuesday morning.
Local media reported that State troopers, Wakefield Police Department, the Middlesex District Attorney’s Office and the Wakefield Fire Department were among the agencies involved in the investigations.
Ms Kabuti moved from Texas to Massachusetts in 2010.
The Kenyan community in Lowell, Massachusetts was shocked upon learning of the death of one of their own.
“She has no relatives here and we are appealing to the Kenyan community to offer any possible support,” Timothy Kihiko, a close friend to the deceased, told samrack.com, a local online publication.
The mangled wreckage in which a 25-year-old US based Kenyan woman, Ms Grace Kabuti, died Monday morning. PHOTO | COURTESY | NATION MEDIA GROUP
