A motorist plying the Thika Superhighway was on Sunday morning burnt to death after the vehicle he was driving was involved in an accident.
The accident happened at the Pangani tunnel along the highway.
According to a police report, the driver, an unknown male aged about 45 years, was driving to Nairobi CBD from Thika when he lost control and hit a pavement wall at 1:30 a.m.
The car is said to have burst into flames as a result of the crash.
Shortly after, the driver was able to exit the vehicle, but was overcome by the flames and fell about one metre away from the vehicle.
Nairobi city county fire brigade rushed at the scene of the crash and put out the fire that had made a section of the road unusable by motorists.
The body of the deceased was moved to City mortuary awaiting identification by relatives.
The wreckage of the car has since been towed to Pangani police station.
