There should be a proper investigation; what about the condition of the car, or the airbags, why did they not work? It's a new car. The stretch is uphill, no bumps to be seen. Kevin had never and did not drink alcohol. What are the autopsy results? Questions, World Athletics at least should ask officially the Kenyan government.
No disrespect, but why, and how? And very unlikely. There are 15,000 road fatalities in Kenya every year.
Annual road fatalities in Kenya average about 2-4k every year. Still too high.
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I suspected it, but it's now been confirmed: Kelvin, Gervais and passenger who survived had gone to watch the final of the Africa Cup of Nations final Sunday night so, please, no more conspiracies about why he was driving so late. Kenyans prefer to watch sports events in public, like sports bars.
...and by the way, bad roads don't kill people, never has. Bad drivers, and not driving to conditions, not at full senses etc etc, that does
You never heard of road safety engineering then. The design of the road infrastructure absolutely has a huge effect on vehicle deaths. A 40x higher death rate than the US per 100,000 cars isn't because of just driver training (US basically is minimal) and behavior. I doubt there's a street racing/fast cars/fast motorcycles culture in Kenya.
Just at the crash site, you might have reflective pavement markers or reflective paint. You could design the drainage ditches to be safer. You have cleared roadway edges there mostly, but then a few random trees right in the ditches? That's bad infrastructure design. You could have reflective arrow markers on curves. You could have guard rails. In the US, we collect accident data and improve infrastructure where there are high accident rates.
...and by the way, bad roads don't kill people, never has. Bad drivers, and not driving to conditions, not at full senses etc etc, that does
You never heard of road safety engineering then. The design of the road infrastructure absolutely has a huge effect on vehicle deaths. A 40x higher death rate than the US per 100,000 cars isn't because of just driver training (US basically is minimal) and behavior. I doubt there's a street racing/fast cars/fast motorcycles culture in Kenya.
Just at the crash site, you might have reflective pavement markers or reflective paint. You could design the drainage ditches to be safer. You have cleared roadway edges there mostly, but then a few random trees right in the ditches? That's bad infrastructure design. You could have reflective arrow markers on curves. You could have guard rails. In the US, we collect accident data and improve infrastructure where there are high accident rates.
Mate, go to South Africa as an example. Excellent roads, good road rules/laws, great driver training/evaluation for licence....death toll 7 times that of Australia.
I didn't even say it was driver training anyway. It is the 'flerxibility' of the law enforcement that changes behaviour. As an example , I don't speed etc in Australia, but in SA on a straight, flat empty road up north west, I pushed my bike to 200km/h, just to get that 'feeling' again after many years. I also drove through speed cameras whislt knowingly over the limit, although not much, but over...didn't lose sleep.
You can drive on those mountain roads of Peru or India and still be safe...drive according to conditions...never heard of that?
BTW Kenya's fatalities are 'only' twice that of America
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Annual road fatalities in Kenya average about 2-4k every year. Still too high.
last year's data was nearly 5000. 14000 is old data from 10+ years ago.
Last year's fatalities were 4,324. Closer to 4K than 5K, but that's irrelevant. Reason why when I drive my friends around, they threaten to get out and walk. Lack of patience is the killer.
At least 22,885 people were involved in road accidents last year, the National Transport and Safety Authority has said.
NTSA said 4,324 died while the rest were left mostly with life-changing injuries.
A terrible, tragic loss. The first legit sub-2 may have just been delayed by years.
Anyway, lots of crazy speculation here. We should await the results of an official investigation. Young men and cars don't mix well unfortunately. There's probably a simple explanation.
My hunch; the world record ratification probably triggered the release of a ton of prize money and sponsor bonuses. The guy had been watching the biannual African Cup of Nations final with his friends. Football is huge in Africa, this match is probably as big in Kenya as the Superbowl is in the USA. Also he'd just crushed a couple of huge training runs. If he's not treating himself to a beer or two in such circumstances I don't know who is.
A terrible, tragic loss. The first legit sub-2 may have just been delayed by years.
Anyway, lots of crazy speculation here. We should await the results of an official investigation. Young men and cars don't mix well unfortunately. There's probably a simple explanation.
My hunch; the world record ratification probably triggered the release of a ton of prize money and sponsor bonuses. The guy had been watching the biannual African Cup of Nations final with his friends. Football is huge in Africa, this match is probably as big in Kenya as the Superbowl is in the USA. Also he'd just crushed a couple of huge training runs. If he's not treating himself to a beer or two in such circumstances I don't know who is.
RIP
Kiptum was very clear that he doesn't drink. There are plenty of other top athletes who also don't drink.
Just because YOU might drink to celebrate a world record doesn't mean everyone else would do the same.
You may have missed this line from the story in the Nation newspaper online:
This is the survivor speaking: Sharon told police that Kiptum lost control of the vehicle and alerted him (sic) but it was too late and they landed in a ditch.
It seems pretty obvious to me that Kiptum was driving too fast on a dark road and lost control of the car. The photos show that it was likely being driven at high speed , spun off the road into a ditch flipped over and hit a tree, basically shearing off the roof.
Did they asked her WHY Kelvin lost control over the vehicle? A legitimate question as part of a general procedure of investigating what happened.
