Ex-CRTV journalist, two others die in accident

Kanebena Bogondo Rene Martin Deguy died on November 29, 2015 after his vehicle collided with a car just after the Sanaga Bridge.

The list of road accident victims in the Mbam and Inoubou Division of the Centre Region continues to rise, with at least 13 people dying within a period of 10 days. The latest were three people on November 29, 2015, one kilometre after the Sanaga Bridge from the Yaounde end of the highway, some 41 km from Bafia.

According to the Deputy Commander of the Bafia Mobile Gendarmerie Road Safety Unit, Senior Warrant Officer (“Adjudant chef’) Olomo Paul, there was a deadly collision between two cars. A Toyota 110 car with registration number CE 830 FV coming from Bafia with five people on board left its own side of the road to crush an Opel saloon car with registration number CE 676 FD, coming from Yaounde. The Opel car belongs to recently retired Cameroon Radio Television, CRTV journalist, Kanebena Bogondo Rene Martin Deguy. Kanebena Bogondo’s car, which was being driven by his driver, was catapulted into the bush before he later died in Efok Hospital.

A woman from the Toyota 110 saloon car, Kamani Tiani Rosine Gladys, died on the spot, while another unidentified passenger on board the same vehicle later died in hospital. A total of three people were seriously wounded in the accident, Olomo Paul disclosed. He blamed the accident on over-speeding, saying there was no other reason why the Toyota 110 car crossed over from its side of the road to crush the journalist’s vehicle.

Earlier on November 19, 2015, a Gurantee Bus Company 70-seat vehicle hit a moving timber lorry, killing six people at Kon Yambetta, 36 km from Bafia. The following day, November 20, 2015, a Toyota Corolla saloon car travelling from Yaounde to Bafoussam, crushed four students in Balamba village, some 36 km from Bafia, the headquarters of Mbam and Inoubou Division.