One dead, three injured after head-on car crash near Kivulini.

One person died and three others were injured in a head-on collision along the Thika-Garissa Highway near Kivulini in Kisii Estate Thika.

The collision happened Saturday evening when the driver of a saloon car attempted to overtake but before it could get back onto its lane, slammed head-on into an oncoming tractor shovel.

The four passengers in the small vehicle were rushed to at Thika Level 5 Hospital, but one of them was pronounced dead on arrival.

The grader driver was also slightly injured.

The evening accident caused heavy traffic snarl up along the busy highway as police had a hard time trying to pull out the wrecked car which had been trapped in the shovel.

The car was later towed to Makongeni Police Station.