A US-based Kenyan truck driver has been sentenced to serve six years in jail for causing vehicular homicide. Joseph Nyandwaro, 41, caused the fatal accident on June 22, 2025 along the northbound New Jersey Turnpike in Woolwich Township in Gloucester County.
According to detectives who investigated the accident, Nyandwaro had deliberately hit another truck and trailer in an act of road rage. He was driving a truck and trailer for US Highway Express Inc. This crash resulted in the death of the truck driver who was identified as Osman Aden.
Footage that was collected from Nyandwaro’s truck showed that he had started laughing after crashing Osman’s truck, sending it into a concrete barrier. Osman’s truck had then careened into a group of trees.
In a plea agreement with the prosecution, Nyandwaro had pleaded guilty to vehicular homicide, and leaving the scene of an accident resulting in death. H was also charged with tampering with evidence in relation to that accident.
“With the assistance of the trucking company, New Jersey State Troopers were able to locate Nyandwaro’s truck, which appeared to have been painted to alter its appearance. Video recorded by the vehicle depicted Nyandwaro crashing into the victims truck, sending the second vehicle into the left concrete barrier,” a report by the prosecutor Andrew John’s office stated.
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“The tractor trailer driver [Nyandwaro] was seen on dashboard video laughing inside his truck as he left the scene.”
