TRANSPORT :MORE THAN A HUNDRED AND ONE ACCIDENTS IN LESS THAN FIVE MONTHS

These alarming figures of national n ° 5 gave rise to a meeting yesterday in the services of the Governor to Douala.
At 1 January 2016 May 31, 2016, the Littoral region identified 111 cases of accidents on the national n ° 5 Douala - Nkongsamba - West. With 79 deaths, 253 injured and considerable material damage. These statistics relate only to data taken at the scene of accident. Data provided by Samuel Dieudonné Ivaha Diboua, Governor of the region of the coast, during the working session held in its services on 8 June 2016 in Douala. It was question to examine the reasons for the increasing rate of road accidents in the region of the coast since the beginning of the year 2016 and to provide solutions. An emergency in the current context of early school holidays and preparation for international sports deadlines awaiting Cameroon. Two aspects that will see an increase in intercity transportation to serve different cities. Actors invited to trade: trade unions of inter-urban carriers, promoters of transportation agencies, drivers, responsible for technical inspection centers, administration and authorities involved in the management of transport, etc. To arrive at solutions, took it back in the first place on the causes of the major dangerous character in the region: the poor state of vehicles and roads, the harsh working conditions of drivers, speeding, the congestion of the road by vehicles, without signaling, among others. Trucks including were annexed on the latter point as genuine gear of death, very involved in accidents. At the end of the speeches, recalling that the road accidents are the case of all, the Governor made a few recommendations: first, you have to educate users. Then, it trained drivers before driving vehicles and carry human lives. Review their working conditions in the sense of improvement, with the need, the obligation even to grant them rest. The rest of the article in a moment