The woman was killed in an incident along the Nairobi-Nakuru highway

A British woman has been killed alongside her friend in a horror head-on crash with a lorry hours after arriving in Kenya for a holiday.

The woman died yesterday morning in a road accident along the Nairobi-Nakuru highway.

A male friend who had collected her from the airport also died at the site of the crash, while their driver sustained serious injuries during the incident, which took place at 4am along the busy road, Nairobian newspaper the Star reports.

The car was making its way to Nakuru and hit a lorry. The driver was taken to Naivasha subcounty hospital in critical condition, while those inside the lorry were unharmed.

Police officer Stephen Kirui said the British woman was collected at Jomo Kenyatta International Airport in Nairobi by the driver and her friend.

He said initial investigations showed that the car driver swerved from the lane and made a head-on collision with the lorry that was on its way to Nairobi.

Kirui said: ‘In the process, the British national who was visiting the country and one male died on the spot while their driver was seriously injured and is admitted to the sub-county hospital.’

The two bodies were transported to the Naivasha sub-county hospital mortuary.

The damaged car was towed to the police station and an inquiry was launched.

The accident came after a Kenyan man suspected of murdering his girlfriend in the United States and leaving her body in an airport car park escaped from custody in Nairobi.