YAOUNDE, Aug. 29 (Xinhua) — Twenty-eight people were killed in a road accident over the weekend when a truck transporting goods collided with a passenger transport bus with 36 passengers on board in Cameroon, state radio announced on Monday.
“The accident occurred when the truck was trying to over-take another truck parked along the roadside and came face-to-face directly with a passenger transport bus from the opposite direction,” said the commandant of the Boumnyebel gendarmerie brigade, Boum Bissoue.
He said beyond the 28 dead, seven others who were seriously injured were rushed to the Yaounde Central Hospital for urgent attention.
Most of the victims of the accident were students on holidays who were going back to the various localities of resident to prepare for the new school year which is scheduled to go underway on Sept. 5. The weekend accident has again brought to sharp focus persistent request from the public that the very busy 265 km long Yaounde- Douala road, which also links the Douala sea port to landlocked Chad and Central African Republic as well as serve northern Congo Republic and Gabon, be transformed to a real highway with several lanes.
Moreover, users say the road is too narrow for its intense and characterized by many bends, making it impossible for drivers to see sometimes as far as just 200 meters ahead of them.
The situation is aggravated by heavy rains in this rainforest part of the country with foggy weather. According to statistics published by the semi-military National Gendarmerie in June, some 1,258 people died in road accidents in the country in 2010, with another 5,000 wounded.
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