Bus Incidents Occur on City Roads as Govt Initiates Nairobi-Nakuru-Mau Summit Highway Dualing - August 2025

The Kenyan government has initiated stakeholder consultations for the expansion of the 175-kilometre Nairobi-Nakuru-Mau Summit Highway. Transport Cabinet Secretary Davis Chirchir announced the public engagement on August 18 for the project, which aims to dual the critical stretch. On the same day, a Guardian Angel bus erupted in flames on the Nairobi–Nakuru Highway at Soysambu, causing significant traffic disruption. In a separate incident in Nairobi, a passenger bus from the Kanash fleet plunged into a ditch on Magadi Road near the Catholic University of Eastern Africa, reportedly after veering off the road while overlapping, leading to major traffic congestion.