Five Feared Dead in Lagos-Ibadan Multiple Road Accident
A road accident that occurred near the Foursquare Camp on the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway has claimed five lives with others injured on Sunday.
Confirming the incident to newsmen in Abeokuta, Mrs Florence Okpe, the Public Education Officer of the Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) in Ogun, disclosed that the accident involved three vehicles; a DAF truck marked, KMC 810 ZB, a Toyota bus marked, TMA-244b XA and a Mitsubishi pickup van with no registration number.
She said the accident happened at about 6:15 a.m. and was caused by excessive speeding, tyre blowout, and loss of control on the part of the driver of the truck.
The FRSC spokesperson explained that consequent to the tyre blowout and loss of control, the truck fell and blocked the road, and both the bus and the pickup van rammed into the fallen truck.
Mrs Okpe revealed that the victims of the crash included twenty-one people out of which twelve were injured while five people died.
According to her, the twelve injured people were taken to Victory Hospital in Ogere, near Abeokuta for medical attention while the dead were deposited at a morgue in the Ipara community, near Abeokuta.
Okpe quoted the Ogun State Sector Commander of the FRSC, Mr Anthony Uga, advising motorists to stop using sub-standard tyres and also drive carefully in this rainy season.
The sector commander, however, sympathised with the families of the victims, advising them to visit the Ogunmakin Unit of the FRSC for more information on the accident.
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