Road crash fatalities in Mombasa between 2021 and 2025 reveal a stark gender disparity, with men consistently accounting for the vast majority of deaths.
Data from the Mombasa Road Safety Report 2025 shows that fatalities increased steadily between 2021 and 2023 before easing slightly in 2024 and 2025.
In 2021, 54 men and four women died in road crashes on the coast. Male fatalities rose to 60 in 2022, while female deaths increased to five.
Fatalities peaked in 2023, when 81 men and eight women were killed.
In 2024, 80 men and 13 women died, while 2025 recorded a slight decline to 68 male and 11 female fatalities.
Across the five-year period, male victims significantly outnumbered female victims, highlighting the need for targeted road-safety interventions to address the factors contributing to the higher number of deaths among men.
