Published on 06.01.2023 at 02:18 by APA
The incident occurred in Yamoussoukro, the political capital of the country, where a bus following a funeral procession and a second transport bus collided head-on. According to a note from the Ivorian Ministry of Transport, this accident which took place on January 5 2023, around 12 p.m. (GMT, local time) comes when “the end-of-year celebrations did not record any heavy-loss accidents”.
This serious road accident has bereaved the country with loss of life, injuries and significant material damage. It appears that one of the coaches following a funeral procession, coming from Abidjan for Séguéla, left its direction of travel in the Nanan district near the Districom station, to find itself in the opposite direction, hitting the second coach frontally. .
The second bus was moving in the Yamoussoukro-Abidjan direction. The provisional report of this accident which occurred in Yamoussoukro reports 14 killed and 71 injured, indicates the Ministry of Transport which expresses the sincere condolences of the government to the relatives of the deceased victims and expresses wishes for a speedy recovery to the injured.
“While waiting to determine the exact causes, with the assistance of the competent services, the Minister of Transport once once more calls on motorists and road users to be more vigilant and to respect the highway code”, concludes the text. .
The Group of military firefighters (GMSP) had established in the early hours of the collision between these two transport cars a provisional toll of 90 victims, including several cases of death and serious injuries imprisoned in the machines.
