a new road accident kills 20 in the Louga region

Published on : 16/01/2023 – 14:23

The black series continues on the roads in Senegal: a new deadly accident occurred on January 16 in the Louga region, in the north of the country. The latest report shows 20 dead in a collision, eight days following a road accident that killed more than 40 people in the department of Kaffrine.

With our correspondent in Dakar, Charlotte Idrac

The accident happened around 5:40 a.m., at the entrance to the town of Ngueune Sarr, on national road 2 which leads to Saint Louis, according to the governor of the Louga region, who announced for the last report 20 dead and 23 injured.

Collision with a truck

Still according to El Hadj Bouya Amar, reached by telephone, a public transport bus – commonly called here a “schedule” or a “Ndiaga Ndiaye” – collided with a truck coming from Dakar.

The bus driver tried to avoid a donkey “, but this must still be confirmed by the investigation, specifies the governor.

The Ministers of Land Transport and the Interior are on site. The dead bodies were evacuated to Louga. Three seriously injured must be evacuated by helicopter to Dakar.

new drama

It is a new drama, therefore, following that of Sikilo, while the transport sector is in turmoil. On January 9, the government announced some twenty measures to combat insecurity on the roads, in particular the ban on driving at night for public transport. But this plan is denounced by transport unions who have announced a strike ” unlimited “from this Tuesday, January 17, midnight.

In a message on the social network Twitter, President Macky Sall offered his condolences to the families and insisted on ” the need to strengthen road safety measures ».

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