Some three people have been reported dead in an accident that occurred in the morning of Saturday June 21, 2014 just below the Station hill in Bamenda.
Ernest Acho who was the assistant driver, Jonathan Ndah and one David died on the spot while a number of very serious injury cases were rushed to the Bamenda Regional Hospital where most of them were admitted at the re-animation unit.
The car is said to have been in a funeral convoy from Mile 14 in Buea to Wabane in Lebialem Division of the South West Region. The convoy was forced to pass through Bamenda due to bad roads.
On the scene, an eyewitness said the 19-seater bus carrying mourners had a brake failure while descending the hill but the driver managed to steer downhill before bashing into fenced building opposite the Inspectorate of Secondary Education just before the sand bay.
Another opinion holds that if the driver had descended and entered the sand bay at the Baptist Centre, the disaster would not have been serious but since he was driving into Bamenda for the first time and did not know that there was a sand bay for vehicles that have lost their brakes along the Station hill.
The convoy that was transporting the corpse of a 74-year-old woman finally left Bamenda later for Wabane-Banteng village via Batibo while the rest of the injured mourners were still receiving treatment in the Bamenda Regional Hospital.
