{"id":16614,"date":"2017-11-07T16:31:55","date_gmt":"2017-11-07T13:31:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.com\/ke\/?p=16614"},"modified":"2017-11-07T16:31:55","modified_gmt":"2017-11-07T13:31:55","slug":"ghafla-investigate-nyeri-governor-wahome-gakuru-is-a-victim-of-faulty-guardrails-he-ought-to-have-survived-the-accident","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/ke\/ghafla-investigate-nyeri-governor-wahome-gakuru-is-a-victim-of-faulty-guardrails-he-ought-to-have-survived-the-accident\/","title":{"rendered":"Ghafla! Investigate: Nyeri governor Wahome Gakuru is a victim of faulty guardrails. He ought to have survived the accident"},"content":{"rendered":"

Nyeri governor Wahome Gakuru died when the Mercedes he was traveling in rammed into guardrails along the Thika-Sagana highway.<\/p>\n

Preliminary investigations found out that the accident was caused by tyre burst. The Mercedes lost control when its tyre burst, veer off the road and ram into the guardrail which speared through the vehicle inflicting fatal injuries on the governor and his aides.<\/p>\n

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Gakuru’s Mercedes was completely demolished by the guardrail<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Guardrails fail<\/h3>\n

Ghafla! has determined that Gakuru and his aides ought to have survived the accident if the guardrails at the scene of the accident were not defective.<\/p>\n

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The guardrail sliced through Gakuru’s Mercedes<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

A standard guardrail is supported to curl off to the side when hit by a vehicle but the guardrail at Kabati sliced through the vehicle inflicting serious injuries and killing the occupants.<\/p>\n

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Standard guardrails are supposed to curl off to the side when hit in high speed. This was not the case in the accident that claimed the life of Nyeri governor<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Faulty guardrails were killing and maiming hundreds of motorists in US before authorities replaced them with ones which curl off to the side when hit in high speed.<\/p>\n

Watch the video below to get a clearer picture of how faulty and standard guardrails work when hit by vehicles:<\/p>\n