RIP: Marathon WR Kelvin Kiptum has died in a car accident at the age of 24

Why? When the truth comes to light, the most talented marathoner in history will still be gone.

You think if somebody murdered Kiptum it doesn't matter if it was investigated or discovered?

Kind of a dumb argument since he wasn’t murdered. If there was some bizarre conspiracy, convictions of the culprits would provide comfort to you?

In such circumstances where there are difficult bends to navigate, there should be guide lights that glow or reflect in the dark at a car's oncoming headlights. The transport ministry and governor would identify all such difficult corners and place such reflective short-sticks round a bend on both sides of the road, and also implant them onto the ground. But of course without a high-beam from your car's headlights, these reflectors also don't work well.

However, even in the event that none of these precautions are in place by the transport ministry, the onus lies on the driver to increase his skill and effort to pre-empt road conditions and potential danger spots in space and time!!! Human drivers are not robotic, they can apply more effort and precaution in space and time if they have detected environmental short-comings, this is called heuristics or heuristical learning and understanding!!! If the human driver is himself disabled or incapacitated like drunk or drug overdose or tired, he need to apply extra effort to ensure either he is not driving or there is someone competent employed to do the job for him.

I find it interesting that many people here think that there were other parties involved in the accident besides those in the car. Living here, with the variable and usually not so good quality of our roads, you get used to the “loss of control” explanation — that is, if you don't experience it, or know people who have. People hit potholes; swerve to avoid animals; veer off the road because there were no signs warning them of changes in road alignment; drive drunk (which is very, very easy to get away with because outside the big cities there are rarely any traffic police on the roads at night — and even if there are, they are typically on a temporary operation); fall asleep at the wheel, and so on. And most importantly, most roads are not lit at night, which increases the risk of accidents.

Correct, and that's why the truck driving on the right side of the road in the picture in a hairpin turn shows how dangerous it is. Guessing you didn't click...

Look I'm not going to argue with you as you have first hand experience. I'm just offering proof someone could be coming the other way and all of a sudden a fully laden truck is coming from uphill in your path with no time to react.

Interesting, this stretch of the road looks well maintained and even has the appropriate safety. As for driving off lane, I believe it’s common there and in many non-western countries to not strictly respect lane boundaries even when there’s no reason not to.

Again, I have never driven this particular road. But having driven other roads in Kenya and other countries throughout the developing world, they are usually quite different from western countries. Typically unlit, no reflectors, no signage indicating to reduce your speed for approaching dips or bends, no guardrails. And yet people travel at 110+ kph like they are on the A1.

Nah there was no other robber or untoward persons involved in the accident!!! My RF prescience and clairvoyance guarantees it!!! It is what it is, no embellishment or suppression of information!! Kelvin was fully responsible for his death and his coach's. If he got out alive and his coach still dead, his coach's family would have sued him for shocking negligence!!! That it was dark at night is no excuse for such amazing negligence!!! There wasn't even an oncoming vehicle to avoid nor an animal to circumvent at all!!! It was just Kelvin driving himself into a ditch completely unprovoked!!! Simply amazing....

Okay, that makes sense now!!! Usually it's the government trying to save cost if they don't opt to place road signs, guardrails and reflectors. It might also be a corrupt government who kept all the money in their pockets.

well, if there was foul play, we may never know.

Even in the U.S., half of homicides go unsolved, and African countries don't have the police resources that we have in the US.

* and even the police resources in the US are stretched very thin, so there's that.

On that cheary note, happy Monday. /s

You can use all the sarcasm in the world, but it is more than likely that is what happened.

Stop posting this trash, you are a cancer to these forums and need to go away.

Very sad. It would've been so much fun to watch him perform over the next decade +.

Which makes the truck on the wrong side, since it's on the right.

I have also been on such roads too but with experienced drivers driving me. They usually are extremely cautious and hit the brakes at any slightest discomfort about the road ahead. It's caution caution caution caution all the way!!! It's so dark and unlit that they only travel at 80km/h. 110km/hr is tad too fast.

Normally, when I'm on the road, I have a knack of making my driver never ever getting into any accident in the world!!! Due to my oh-so-fanatic electromagnetic hygiene I demand and instruct/order them to turn off all FM radio antennas, GPS navigation, mobile phones, bluetooth earpieces, any other antenna and any other electronic device not involved in propelling the car's engine, and proceed to stick a Stellar Dome Australia EMF harmonizer on the dashboard and we are all set for a 200% safe journey why???

Because, with all possible anthropogenic RF and EMF antennas and circuits powered off in combination with my trusty EMF harmonizer, the NERVOUS SYSTEM OF MY DRIVER WHICH IS HIS BRAIN CENTER, HIS REACTION TIMES, HIS REFLEX MECHANISMS, HIS ALERT-NESS, HIS SITUATIONAL AWARENESS, HIS ABILITY TO PRE-EMPT DANGER, HIS SELF-CONTROL, HIS SELF-AWARENESS, HIS ROAD-WORTHINESS, HIS ROAD INTELLIGENCE JUST SKY ROCKETS TO NEXT-NEXT-NEXT-NEXT LEVELS such as is impossible to make a mistake on the road, EVEN IF OTHER DRIVERS MAKE A MISTAKE!!!!

This means also that my super alert and mentally pumped up driver is so aware and alert that he even knows what, how, why, when, where other drivers will make a mistake and hence demonstrating uncanny prescient ability to foretell an accident thus preventing it in the first place!!! An accident by default cannot happen if it has been foretold in space and time since caution can be applied before it happens thus averting accident!!!

I wouldn't be surprised if Kelvin and his 2 passengers were irradiated long before the car ride, and, while in the car ride so that ultimately his lapse at the wheel was continuous accumulated exposure to anthropogenic RF and EMF day after day, month after month, year after year waiting to precisely manifest as an accident finally........just sad!!!!

Tragedy strikes, at odd times and circumstances. 24 is too young to die. His whole future was ahead of him but his star shone brightly although so briefly. We will miss you, you dazzle us and now we must not let grief prevail but be thankful that God granted us the opportunity to witness Kiptun in all his glory. We will yet see him yet again but in heaven where he now dwells. Let us give his soul rest and celebrate his life. That's what he would want, I'm sure he didn't want to go bit God had other plans. He was only lent to us, now his soul has been called back home. AMEN.

Agreed, amen amen amen amen!!!!

Come to think of it, with the way he was negligent at the wheel as to provoke his own death by his own hand, I can't help but be suddenly recalled or reminded of the deadly withering neurological effects of anthropogenic RF on the reaction times, muscle coordination and reflex mechanisms, situational awareness, spatio-temporal awareness in both driving on the roads as in high-performance jiu-jitsu or running, sprinting, cycling, skiing any endeavor for that matter!!! A Toyota car is metallic Faraday Cage and cages in or traps and accumulates anthropogenic RF to high enough levels to precisely neurologically distort enough spatio-temporal awareness in the nervous system to catalyze or take advantage of a lapse or error in judgement to kill Kelvin!!! Anthropogenic RF and EMF is therefore like that Grim Reaper waiting to mop up death!!!!

In every existence, life or death, one simply cannot escape the finality or appraisal of anthropogenic RF and EMF because its death is simply just too ubiquitous hence TOO EXISTENTIAL!!!!

Amen...