A car crash in Maryland, early Friday morning, claimed the life of a 23-year-old Centreville man. Onga Yitnya Poubom, of Oak Cluster Drive, was the right-rear-seat passenger in a vehicle that slammed into a mini-bus in the Layhill section of Montgomery County.
He was one of three people in the car who were killed. According to Montgomery County police, Daniel Mofor-Achiri Ngundam, 23, of Greenbelt, Md., was driving a Ford Escort east on Bonifant Road near Morton Hall Road, at 8:49 a.m., when the tragedy occurred.
For an unknown reason, the car crossed the center line and struck a Montgomery County ARC (Association for Retarded Citizens) mini-bus that was traveling westbound. Ngundam was pronounced dead at the scene.
Poubom and another man, Leslie A. Telli, 24, of Arlington — who was the front-seat passenger — were Medevaced by Maryland State Police helicopters to R. Adams Cowley Shock Trauma Center in Baltimore. But they both later died there from their injuries.
One passenger on the bus was transported to Suburban Hospital for a non-life-threatening, head laceration. The remaining eight passengers were taken to Montgomery General Hospital where they were checked and later released.
Driving the bus was Thomas Kpardeh Wilson, 50, of Gaithersburg. Police are still investigating the cause of the collision.
<tgl> —Bonnie Hobbs