Kisumu Mum Loses Leg After Terrible Road Accident While Heading Home: "Ilibidi Ikatwe"

• Emmily Akech was on her way home from work when she got into a terrible rod accident, resulting in a bad injury
• She was rushed to the hospital by a friend and a good Samaritan, where she was attended to with urgency
• Speaking to TUKO.co.ke, the Kisumu mother of two recalled discovering her leg had been amputated

Kisumu - A woman has shared her heartbreaking story of how an unfortunate turn of events changed her life.

Emmily Akech was involved in a terrifying road accident that left a significant mark on her body.

She painfully recalled the night the horrible incident occurred and she had to make adjustments after surviving.

Emmily Akech narrates how accident happened

Speaking to TUKO.co.ke, Akech shared she was closing her shop and was on her way home before the night curfew.

"On this fateful night, I closed my shop at 8:45pm because the curfew was from 9pm, boarded the motorbike, and headed home. Somewhere along the road, just next to where I was supposed to branch off to where I was staying, an oncoming car with a full light veered off from its right side and came at full speed on our side.

I started shouting at the boda guy, asking, "Are you seeing that vehicle coming?" And just when the guy tried to get off the tarmac, the car hit me on my right leg and threw us off the road," she narrated.

Akech rushed to hospital by friend, good Samaritan

The mother of two said the accident drew a scene as her family members were contacted and informed of what happened.

A good Samaritan and her friend took her to the hospital, where she was attended to with urgency as she was losing a lot of blood.

"The following day, at around 10am, a nurse came. She was to give me some injections, and then she started by asking, "When was this leg amputated?" It's like l didn't process the news immediately. I was not even shocked. I was just there expressionless and just replied that I was not even aware that I'd been amputated," she said.

Part of me was lost, Akech says

The Kisumu woman said she was in denial after her limb was chopped off, and it took her several days to accept.

"I was not crying because of pain or anything. I was mourning a part of me, which was lost," she added.

Kiambu single dad breaks legs in accident

In another story, Willis Charago Macharia was involved in a terrible road accident where he unfortunately broke his legs.

Macharia, a boda boda operator, was waiting for a customer when he was hit by a speeding car.

The father of three from Kahawa Wendani, Kiambu county, appealed for help from social media users through a well-wisher.

Proofreading by Asher Omondi, current affairs journalist and copy editor at TUKO.co.ke.