Douala: Vehicle Kills 20 Year Old Bike Rider

Amotorbike rider has been knocked dead by a car in Douala, principal city of Littoral region of Cameroon.

The 20 year old was hit in the early morning hours of Sunday July 8, 2018 at a neighbourhood known as PK 12, Douala III, reports have said.

According to local residents, Maxime, the 20-year-old motorbike rider, was driving towards PK 13, when he was hit hard by a car from the military engineering district.

Witnesses told TCR that the wounded man who was in critical condition, was immediately taken to the Military Engineering Hospital and then to the Santa Elena health center in PK 12; where he was denied admission.

“The doctors rejected his case and asked us to go elsewhere,” said a source.

Maxime, later died in a vehicle that was transporting him to the military garrison hospital in Bonanjo, situated just a few kilometers from the site of the mishap.

His lifeless body was then deposited in a morgue. An investigation into the accident has been opened by police officers from the 13th district public security station, who rushed to the scene of the accident.

TCR gathered that, the weeping parents of Maxime, said that they had forbidden him from doing commercial motorbike transportation during night hours. The young boy however failed to heed to the advice of his parents that day and so, paid heavily for it.