{"id":208496,"date":"2025-09-29T07:28:52","date_gmt":"2025-09-29T05:28:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-13-killed-in-gilgil-crash-2-children-among-passengers-seriously-injured\/"},"modified":"2025-09-29T07:28:52","modified_gmt":"2025-09-29T05:28:52","slug":"kenya-13-killed-in-gilgil-crash-2-children-among-passengers-seriously-injured","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-13-killed-in-gilgil-crash-2-children-among-passengers-seriously-injured\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenya: 13 Killed in Gilgil Crash, 2 Children Among Passengers Seriously Injured"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"18\">Nakuru \u2014 <em>Thirteen people died on Sunday afternoon in a grisly road accident near Kikopey, Gilgil, along the Nakuru-Nairobi highway.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"26\">Nakuru County Police Commander Emmanuel Opuru said the victims were travelling in a 14-seater PSV headed to Nakuru when it collided head-on with a semi-trailer truck.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"24\">&#8220;The matatu was overtaking and then it rammed into the trailer causing 13 fatalities and three others seriously injured,&#8221; Opuru said confirming the incident.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"11\">Two children were among three passengers&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202509290012.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>Nakuru \u2014 Thirteen people died on Sunday afternoon in a grisly road accident near Kikopey, Gilgil, along the Nakuru-Nairobi highway. Nakuru County Police Commander Emmanuel Opuru said the victims were travelling in a 14-seater PSV headed to Nakuru when it collided head-on with a semi-trailer truck. &#8220;The matatu was overtaking and then it rammed into [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":208497,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[250],"tags":[258,256,8700,7371,7750,38350,6710,4688,430,4327,257,7833,254],"class_list":["post-208496","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-kenya","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-among","tag-children","tag-crash","tag-gilgil","tag-injured","tag-kenya","tag-kenya-news","tag-killed","tag-news","tag-passengers","tag-south-africa-today"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.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\/208496","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=208496"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208496\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/208497"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=208496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=208496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=208496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}