Ghastly car accidents claming the lives of many
The Cameroon roads have become a dead trap, an express road to the grave and a dead warrant to its users. Those ploughing the roads are never sure of reaching their destinations or returning back home alive or without deformations. The recent road accidents occurring on the highways of the state is planting fear on the citizens each time they think of making a trip either for business purpose, work or visit.
On the 27th of January, 2021, the population of Dschang of the West Region in particular and Cameroonians all over the national territory were in complete shock over the dead of about 53 people who lost their lives prematurely through a ghastly road accident as a passenger 70 seater bus collided with an oil truck in the Menoua Division. The collision of the truck and the bus, set the two vehicles ablaze claiming the lives of over half a hundred passengers who died screaming, shouting and lamenting in pains as they burn.
Awa Fonka Augustine, the governor of the West Region of Cameroon, pointed out that, the identifying the dead so far has not been done. Passengers with serious injuries have been taken to the hospital. He explained that the oil truck has brake malfunction and fog was covering the atmosphere in the area where the incident occurred and also it is known to be dangerous for drivers due to its hilly and gullies topography.
On Wednesday, December 30th, Father Herve Marie Simo of the Saint John Congregation in Yaounde, the chaplain of the renowned College Vogt lost his life in a ghastly road accident in Pouma along the Douala – Yaounde highway. The servant of God car had a head collision with a heavy duty truck in Pouma in the Littoral Region leaving him lifeless.
On Saturday breaking Sunday, the 26 to the 27th of December 2020 at about 1 am, along the Yaounde – Bafia road, at a place known as the “pont de Nomale” over 35 persons lives were snatched and 18 others wounded through a road accident a day after they had celebrated the Christmas feast. As stated by a communique of the minister of transport, a bus belonging to Avenir Voyage heading to Yaounde collided with a truck coming in the opposite direction in Ndikinimeki, along the Yaounde Bafoussam highway.
The recurrent road accidents amounting to deaths in Cameroon is giving both the authorities and the citizens sleepless nights. An average of 16.000 road accidents are recorded each year, killing more than 1.200 people. The dilapidated roads, over speeding, careless, and lack of control can be accused to be the main course of road accidents registered in the country today.
Takang Bissong
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