The group leader of a Bay of Plenty college's mission trip to Kenya was asleep when a driver-swap put a teen behind the wheel in a minivan crash that killed four people.

The former Bethlehem College student who was driving the minibus in Kenya which crashed, killing four people, was encouraged to drive.

International criminal court indictee Uhuru Kenyatta was officially declared the winner of Kenya's presidential election yesterday.

Bethlehem College will not be investigating the finding by Kenyan police that former school student David Fellows was not the driver of the van in the fatal crash last month.

Former Bethlehem College student David Fellows has been cleared over the crash that killed three New Zealanders in Kenya, with investigators saying he was not the driver.

The teenager driving in the fatal Bethlehem College crash would not have been legally allowed to drive the ill-fated van.

A "good, kind and respected man" is how a former Bethlehem College student describes the teen who was driving the minibus that crashed in Kenya, killing four people.

A criminal law expert says he would have advised a former Bethlehem College student to keep quiet about his part in a tragic bus crash in Kenya until arriving home.

A private investigator may fly to Africa to establish who knew that an 18-year-old was behind the wheel of a minivan that crashed.

The teen who had been driving the bus that crashed in Kenya, killing four people, had "carried a very heavy burden'', according to the principal of Bethlehem College.

An 18-year-old man who was driving the minivan that crashed in Kenya, killing three Kiwis, was told to keep quiet about a driver swap, Bethlehem College has revealed.

A normal start to the school year is expected at Tauranga's Bethlehem College today.

The ten children of a couple killed in a mini-van accident in Kenya on January 15 have paid tribute to their parents at a funeral service at Bethlehem College this morning.

One moment there was the noisy banter of a minivan packed with happy school pupils. The next, there was chaos, shock, confusion - "one big nightmare", as one put it.

Lydia Hollister-Jones was good friends with Caitlin Dickson, one of four people killed in a Kenyan bus crash. She wrote a heartfelt blog about her.

A New Zealand teenager who died as a result of a bus crash in Kenya told passengers going to her aid to help others first, despite being badly injured.

Friends and family of the three New Zealanders killed in a road accident in Kenya days before their return home will gather today to remember them.

A dream trip to Kenya has turned to tragedy for students at Tauranga's Bethlehem College after a "grisly'' crash claimed the lives of three Kiwis.

Those visiting the Masai Mara Reservation for the first time are overwhelmed. But those who had visited the Mara area 30 years ago and remembers the way it was then see a different place.