Twelve students among fifty students from Moi University have sustained minor injuries in an accident involving their bus along the Nairobi- Nakuru highway.

The third-year and fourth-year Kiswahili students were travelling to Mombasa for an educational trip when their bus landed in a ditch at Kimende town in Lari subcounty.

“The driver of the bus lost control in unclear circumstances and the bus landed in a ditch,” deputy police commander Francis Njomo said.

Confirming the incident, Lari sub-county deputy police commander Francis Njomo said the students were rushed to Orthodox Hospital in Kimende town.

He said traffic police have launched investigations to establish the events that happened leading to the accident.

“We are investigating to establish how the driver lost control and the bus got off the road,” he said.

According to John Kimani, an eye witness, the driver was trying to pave way for an oncoming car that he alleges was being driven carelessly.

While giving accounts of the accident, Kimani asked motorists to drive carefully along Kimende, Uplands, Magina, Kinale and the environs since it is a cold area covered by mist in the morning and evening.

“No one needs to over-speed, the weather is very chilly. The roads are slippery and you cannot see the distance one is required to see when one is driving” Kimani added.

Njomo then added that the wreckage of the university bus was towed to the Lari police station as investigations continue.

Meanwhile, Moi University Vice Chancellor Isaac Kosgey  has announced that all academic trips at the institution have been suspended until after the Easter Holidays.

This accident comes barely two weeks after 11 Kenyatta University students lost their lives in a grisly road accident along the Mombasa- Nairobi Highway at Maungu, Voi, Taita Taveta county.

The 11 were among a group of 58 others heading to Mombasa for an academic trip before their school bus collided with a trailer.