Six killed in Kon Yambetta road accident

Six passengers lost their lives while five others were seriously wounded yesterday, November 19, 2015, when a public transport vehicle belonging to the Guarantee Express Bus Company ran into a moving timber truck. According to the Commander of the Bafia Gendarmerie Road Safety Unit, ‘Adjudant chef-major’ Ntobuku Fidelis, the accident happened at 1 am in Kon Yambetta village, 36 km from Bafia in the Centre Region.

The bus, with registration number CE 528 FW, which was heading for Bamenda from Yaounde, hit the moving truck with registration number OU 948 AG; that was also going in the same direction. The six victims died on the spot while the wounded were rushed to Bafia Hospital. Ntobuku Fidelis said among the dead was a woman who did not have any identification papers on her.

Meanwhile, the people in the timber lorry suffered no injuries. The Commander of the Bafia Gendarmerie Road Safety Unit suggested that fatigue on the part of the driver might have been responsible for the accident. He said there are no potholes at the scene that could have caused the bus to skip into the back of the moving lorry.