The lady who survived a road crash on Saturday with her 2-year-old daughter in Syokimau has thanked her daughter for saving her life
Rima Gichoga narrates how a truck crashed her car moments after they got out on the Nairobi-Mombasa highway.
It all started
The daughter would not let Ms. Gichoga rest, so they got into their car to look for something that her daughter would eat to gain her strength.
She had parked her car on a service lane off the highway, at the Syokimau junction, with her baby already in distress.
“She usually cries a lot, and when that happens she starts throwing up so I parked the car to check up on her. And then I saw the container as it started to tip over, I didn’t even think about it, I just grabbed the child and fell out onto the side of the car,” she narrates.
“On looking, I saw the container on top of the car, and my legs were still inside,” she added.
A taxi driver who knew the woman picked her up and rushed her to a nearby hospital where she was attended to
Ms. Gichoga also has an older child, a son, whom she left behind on that fateful morning.
“We left him behind because when I leave with him he usually says I’m wasting his play time. If we had all gone then we would have died because I wouldn’t have known whom to save,” she says.