Traffic head drives car into ditch
Traffic Commandant Charlton Murithi (centre). He was on Sunday night involved in an accident on Ojijo Road in Parklands, Nairobi. FILE PHOTO | NATION MEDIA GROUP
What you need to know:
- Gigiri police chief Vitalis Otieno neither confirmed nor denied that the traffic boss was involved in an accident, saying he had not been briefed. “I went to Parklands Police Station but the accident was not reported in the Occurrence Book.”
- Mr Mureithi too had not denied nor confirmed the report on Thursday. He has been leading the crackdown on drunk drivers by use of breathalysers.
Traffic Police Commandant Charlton Mureithi was on Sunday night involved in an accident on Ojijo Road in Parklands, Nairobi.
CID officers on patrol found the police boss, who was not injured, alone stuck in his car, which had landed in a ditch near Parklands Sports Club.
He was driven in his car to the nearby Parklands Police Station and then taken to his house in Spring Valley.
A senior officer in the Traffic Department said the vehicle had landed in a drainage channel that was under construction.
“The commandant was not injured, although the vehicle was slightly damaged on the left side,” the officer said.
Gigiri police chief Vitalis Otieno neither confirmed nor denied that the traffic boss was involved in an accident, saying he had not been briefed.
“I went to Parklands Police Station, but the accident was not reported in the occurrence book.”
Mr Mureithi, too, did not deny or confirm the report on Thursday. He has been leading the crackdown on drunken drivers using breathalysers.
Since the crackdown on drunken motorists started, the number of accidents has gone down, Mr Mureithi said recently.
