{"id":177131,"date":"2024-07-23T19:24:55","date_gmt":"2024-07-23T17:24:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-two-drivers-dead-after-lorries-collide-and-burst-into-flames-on-southern-bypass\/"},"modified":"2024-07-23T19:24:55","modified_gmt":"2024-07-23T17:24:55","slug":"kenya-two-drivers-dead-after-lorries-collide-and-burst-into-flames-on-southern-bypass","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-two-drivers-dead-after-lorries-collide-and-burst-into-flames-on-southern-bypass\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenya: Two Drivers Dead After Lorries Collide and Burst Into Flames On Southern Bypass"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"19\">Nairobi \u2014 Two drivers lost their lives after a head-on collision between two trucks on Nairobi&#8217;s Southern Bypass on Tuesday morning.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"32\">The accident, which occurred at 6:30 a.m., resulted in one of the trucks bursting into flames, adding to the horror of the incident that left three passengers with serious injuries, police said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"34\">National Police Service Spokesperson Resila Onyango said the accident, which occurred at 6:30 a.m., was caused by a lorry driver who lost control while driving from Kikuyu&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202407230463.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 East Africa <a title=\"Kenya\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/east-africa\/kenya\/\">Kenya<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nairobi \u2014 Two drivers lost their lives after a head-on collision between two trucks on Nairobi&#8217;s Southern Bypass on Tuesday morning. The accident, which occurred at 6:30 a.m., resulted in one of the trucks bursting into flames, adding to the horror of the incident that left three passengers with serious injuries, police said. National Police [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":177132,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[250],"tags":[258,256,13223,33397,35229,8096,11628,16114,4688,430,19091,257,254,7153],"class_list":["post-177131","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-kenya","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-burst","tag-bypass","tag-collide","tag-dead","tag-drivers","tag-flames","tag-kenya","tag-kenya-news","tag-lorries","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-southern"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177131","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=177131"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177131\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/177132"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}