This archive report was first published on 17 December 2019.
On Tuesday afternoon, Modern Coast Express Limited is expected to resume normal operations after being cleared by the National Transport and Safety Authority (NTSA).
The suspension was imposed last Thursday after two buses operated by the company were involved in a tragic accident at Kiongwanu along Mombasa Road, resulting in the deaths of seven people and injuring 62 others.
One bus was headed to Nairobi from Mombasa, while the other was from Nairobi going to Mombasa when the accident occurred.
According to reports, this is not the first time Modern Coast buses have been involved in accidents. In November, a bus was involved in a head-on collision with a Tahmeed Bus, and in the same month, an accident on the Kericho-Nakuru highway left one person dead.
Additionally, in September 2019, eight people died in an accident involving a Modern Coast bus at Jinja-Tororo highway in Uganda, and in June 2019, another bus accident in Webuye Bungoma highway claimed the lives of eight people, bringing the total number of fatalities to 24.
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