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Accidents plague gathering: Archbishop (David Gitari) escapes death on Kenyan road.


Nairobi Nairobi (nīrō`bē), city (1996 pop. 3,000,000), capital of Kenya, S Kenya, in the E African highlands. Nairobi is Kenya's largest city and its administrative, communications, and economic center.  

Anglican Archbishop of Kenya David Gitari escaped death by a whisker when his vehicle collided with a police car in September.

The accident occurred when the outspoken clergyman was travelling from his rural home in Kirinyaga District Kirinyaga District is an administrative district in the Central Province of Kenya. Its capital town is Kerugoya. The district has a population of 457,105 and an area of 1,478 sq km [1].

The district has four constituencies: Mwea, Gichugu, Ndia and Kerugoya/Kutus.
 to Nairobi.

The vehicles were travelling in the same direction and collided after negotiating a sharp turn on Thika highway near Thika town.

The crash left Archbishop Gitari, his driver, and two traffic officers in the police car badly shaken
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 but otherwise unharmed.

It was the third accident involving Anglicans in two weeks.

Earlier, five women from Kakamega and a 6-year-old child were killed when their bus crashed near Chepsir market, 20 kilometres from Kericho Town, as they were travelling to Mombasa for a five-day convention of the Anglican church's Mothers' Union The Mothers' Union (often abbreviated MU) is a worldwide movement of Anglican women, whose aim is to strengthen and preserve marriage and family life through Christianity. The MU calculates its membership to be about 3.6 million in 78 countries. .

After the Mothers' Union gathering, two other women were injured in·jure  
tr.v. in·jured, in·jur·ing, in·jures
1. To cause physical harm to; hurt.

2. To cause damage to; impair.

3.
 in another road accident at Makindu while returning to Kirinyaga.
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Date:Oct 1, 2002
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