By Ahone Heidi
Four persons were killed in Mile 2 Limbe when a truck rammed into a private car, Hysacam truck and two commercial motorcycles.
Reports say the incident happened Sunday June 30,2024 after a cement trailer lost its brakes and shattered a car and twos bike before crashing into a garbage collection truck near the Bocom filling station at Mile 2, Limbe.
Four others sustained serious injuries in the crash.
This is not the first time such fatal accidents from breal failure claiming several lives have occurred on the descent of Mile 2 hill.
Reports say this time it was a cement trailer that lost its brakes and crashing into other vehicles, killing 4 persons and wounding others.
The truck crushed, a private Toyota Carina vehicle while a waste collection truck belonging to HYSACAM suffered serious damages, with two motorbikes.
Two workers of the garbage collection company HYSACAM were among those who died on the spot as well as a woman and a child.
The accident caused several minutes of traffic as gendarme officers struggled to clear the road and restore traffic.
It should be noted that the Limbe accident comes barely few days after six people lost their lives in an accident on the Dschang hill in the West Region, an incident that was also attributed to brake failure.
A few days ago, another accident along the Baffousam-Yaounde road claimed the lives of former Indomitable Lions football player Landry Nguémo and his driver.
Their Suzuki car was mercilessly crushed by a truck at Obala, near Yaounde.
