Pedestrians who survive road accidents risk being charged with attempted suicide.
Speaking in Nairobi during the release of data on road safety, Traffic Police Commandant Charlton Murithi said it is necessary to put in place stiffer penalties to address road carnage.
This comes in the wake of revelations by the National Transport and Safety Authority that the number of people killed in road accidents this year has increased compared with last year.
Between January and April this year, 804 people were killed in road accidents compared to 734 people during the same period in 2014, said head of the safety authority Francis
Meja.
He said 344 of those killed were pedestrians who could have survived had they followed traffic rules.
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