One person has been confirmed dead in the Monday, August 11, 2025, accident involving a passenger bus and a long-distance truck near Lela along the Kisumu-Busia Highway.

Confirming the accident, Nyanza regional traffic police officer Peter Maina indicated that six others were injured.

“We have lost one person, and six other people have been seriously injured. Among them are three men and three children,” Maina said.

Assessing minor injuries

“We are in the process of assessing those who have sustained minor injuries in the accident.”

Part of the passenger bus was wrecked by the long-distance truck as passengers were evacuated from the bus, which had veered off the road near Lela in Kisumu County.

The rear side of the bus was completely wrecked from the impact of the collision, painting a grim picture of the state of the passengers inside.

Coptic roundabout accident

The accident comes just days after a school bus ferrying mourners overturned on the Kisumu-Kakamega highway on Friday, August 8, 2025, killing at least 25 passengers who were coming back from a funeral ceremony.

In a post shared on its official Facebook page on Friday, August 8, 2025, just hours after the accident, the hospital noted that 19 bodies were transported directly from the accident scene to the facility.

“Staff at Jaramogi Oginga Odinga Teaching and Referral Hospital (JOOTRH) moved swiftly this evening to receive and save the lives of survivors from a tragic road accident that occurred at the Coptic roundabout area along the Kisumu-Kakamega Road. The accident involved a school bus carrying family members who were on their way to Nyakach after attending a burial of their relative in Nyahera, Kisumu West sub-county,” the hospital wrote on Facebook.

Casualties

Additionally, two unidentified adult males and a male child succumbed to their injuries shortly after arrival at the hospital, bringing the total number of fatalities to 21.

The post further added that the 21 survivors are stable and under continuous observation as they receive specialised care in the hospital’s Emergency and Accident Unit.

“Twenty-one of the occupants are currently stable and receiving treatment at the hospital’s Emergency and Accident Unit. Unfortunately, the hospital also received 19 bodies from the accident scene, while another two unidentified adult males and a male child succumbed to their injuries upon arrival at the hospital. Making the total number of those dead 21.”