NTSA Grounds Modern Coast’s 88 Buses after Thursday Accident

The National Transport and Safety Authority (NTSA) has suspended the operating license for Modern Coast buses following an early morning crash involving two buses from the company, killing 7 people among them a two-year-old baby and injuring 62 others.

“Following the early Thursday morning crash involving two of their buses, the Authority has with immediate effect suspended the Company’s operator’s licence and initiated a thorough investigation into its safety standards and operations,” NTSA’s Director General, George Njao, said in a statement.

Further to the ban, the authority also directed the National Police to impound any of Modern Coast’s 88 vehicles operating contrary to the suspension.

Njao also added that NTSA has deactivated the Modern Coast’s access to the NTSA portal to limit any activities on their 88 vehicles.

The accident occurred at Kiongwani area, near Salama town along Mombasa-Nairobi highway, Makueni County when the two buses from the company, one headed to Nairobi from Malaba while the other was from Nairobi going to Mombasa, collided at around 2 am on Jamhuri day.

Earlier this year, Kiongwani was marked as a blackspot and has recorded more than 10 road accidents in the last three weeks.

On Wednesday, another Modern Coast bus was involved in accident with a Tahmeed bus in the same area.