Up to 15 British tourists injured in coach crash in Mombasa, Kenya
Up to 15 British tourists were injured when a coach crashed in Kenya's port city of Mombasa.
The vehicle rolled off the road and tumbled down a 16 foot drop before ending
up on its side in the lane for traffic coming the opposite way. The tourists
were believed to have been travelling from an Indian Ocean resort hotel to
the city's Moi International Airport at about 6 am when the accident
happened.
"The driver lost control on the Makupa Causeway and veered off the road,"
said Joshua Wamukata, Traffic Commandant in Coast Province. The causeway
links Mombasa island to the Kenyan mainland.
"The bus fell down a five metre drop and rolled over onto another road,"
he added. "It was very fortunate that there were no vehicles on the
other road."
Mark Bizley, who was travelling in a car behind the coach, told the BBC the
driver struggled to control the vehicle after a tanker in front began
spilling water on the road.
He said: "We were behind the local coach company coach, which in turn was
behind a truck carrying water that was leaking quite heavily onto the road.
With all the water, the coach's wheels lost grip and started to snake. I
could see the driver was really struggling to keep the vehicle straight and
it just rolled down the embankment onto the other carriageway.
