一辆载有悼念者的巴士在肯尼亚东南部一条主要高速公路上与一辆卡车相撞，警方称造成至少24人死亡。
A bus carrying mourners has collided with a truck on a major highway in southeastern Kenya, killing at least 24 people, police say.
事故发生在周日（10月25日）上午7时45分（格林威治标准时间04:45）左右，地点位于姆蒂托-安代伊附近的坎加地区，即连接首都内罗毕与沿海城市蒙巴萨的公路上。医院官员称，另有24人受伤。
The crash happened in the Kanga area near Mtito Andei, on the road linking the capital, Nairobi, to the coastal city of Mombasa, at about 7:45am (04:45 GMT) on Sunday, October 25. Another 24 people were injured, hospital officials said.
就在三周多前，同一条高速公路上发生另一起车祸造成17人死亡，促使政府再次承诺改善道路安全，而此次事故导致的死亡紧随其后。
The deaths came just over three weeks after another crash on the highway killed 17 people, prompting fresh government promises to improve road safety.
这辆巴士属于蒙巴萨的“国际神言教会”，当时正将乘客从肯尼亚西部的牧师葬礼送回家中。据一名幸存者称，他们在相撞前不久曾停车吃早餐。另一辆涉事车辆是一辆运送水泥的卡车。
The bus belonged to Power of the Word Church International in Mombasa and was taking passengers home from their pastor’s funeral in western Kenya. They had stopped for breakfast shortly before the collision, according to one survivor. The other vehicle was a truck transporting cement.
幸存者维奥莱特·姆万多尼周日对美联社表示，她记得乘客们曾呼喊着请求过往司机伸出援手。她说，她不知道同车的两个孩子发生了什么事。事故原因仍在调查中。
Violet Mwandonyi, who survived the crash, told the Associated Press on Sunday that she remembered passengers crying out for passing motorists to help. She said she did not know what had happened to her two children, who had been travelling on the bus. The cause of the crash remains under investigation.
马库埃尼郡专员阿卜杜拉希·哈利夫（该地区政府高级行政长官）对肯尼亚报纸《标准报》表示，巴士司机在试图超越数辆车辆时，与迎面而来的卡车相撞。
Makueni County Commissioner Abdullahi Khalif, the government’s senior administrator in the area, told Kenyan newspaper The Standard that the bus driver had tried to overtake several vehicles before colliding with an oncoming truck.
肯尼亚国家交通与安全管理局（NTSA）也将危险超车认定为可能的原因。另一名幸存者则称，是卡车从后方撞上了巴士。
Kenya’s National Transport and Safety Authority (NTSA) also identified dangerous overtaking as a possible cause. Another survivor said the truck struck the bus from behind.
10月3日，同一条高速公路上萨拉马附近发生一起涉及多辆车的车祸，造成17人死亡，死者大多是前往祈祷地点的天主教朝圣者。警方称，当时一名卡车司机试图超越另一辆卡车时发生碰撞。国家交通与安全管理局曾将该路段认定为有事故历史的区域。
On October 3, a crash involving several vehicles killed 17 people, most of them Catholic pilgrims travelling to a prayer site, near Salama on the same highway. Police said a truck driver had tried to overtake another truck before the collision. The NTSA had identified that stretch of road as an area with a history of crashes.
总统威廉·鲁托周日表示哀悼，并下令对用于公共交通的车辆进行检查。
President William Ruto offered condolences on Sunday and ordered inspections of vehicles used for public transport.
交通部长戴维斯·奇尔奇尔表示，政府将加强对超速和不安全超车行为的执法，改善危险路段，并加强对商业驾驶员的培训和考核。
Transport Minister Davis Chirchir said the government would step up enforcement against speeding and unsafe overtaking, improve dangerous sections of road and strengthen training and checks for commercial drivers.
奇尔奇尔周日在一份声明中说，政府将与警方、地方政府和立法者合作推行这些措施，包括加强对公交车和重型货车的监管。
In a statement on Sunday, Chirchir said the government would work with police, local authorities and lawmakers on the measures, including closer oversight of buses and heavy goods vehicles.
他说：“我们不能继续把道路安全视为照常公事”，呼吁采取更有力的行动以减少死亡人数。
“We cannot continue treating road safety as business as usual,” he said, calling for stronger action to reduce deaths.
肯尼亚媒体援引国家交通安全局（NTSA）的数据报道，2025年有5009人死于道路交通事故，2026年上半年记录了2150人死亡。该机构估计，肯尼亚每年发生约2万起交通事故。
Figures from the NTSA, reported by Kenyan media, show that 5,009 people died in road crashes in 2025, with 2,150 deaths recorded in the first half of 2026. The authority estimates that about 20,000 crashes occur across Kenya each year.
在这周日的碰撞事故发生后，该机构呼吁将道路交通事故宣布为国家灾难。
Following Sunday’s collision, it called for road crashes to be declared a national disaster.