Transportation

Road Accident Claims Eight lives on Lagos-Ibadan Expressway

By Web News 410

By Bolanle Adesida

Eight people have been confirmed dead, while eleven others sustained injuries in a fatal accident on the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway, near the NASFAT Turn, outbound Lagos. 

Ogun State Traffic Compliance and Enforcement Agency TRACE,  Public Relations Officer, Commander Babatunde Akinbiyi, confirmed the incident in a statement made available to newsmen in Abeokuta, saying the crash occurred at 3::00pm.

According to Commander Akinbiyi, the accident involved an 18-seater commercial bus with registration number APP 943 XP and a truck with registration number AKM 547 YQ.

He explained that the driver of the 18-passenger bus was speeding when it rammed into an empty, bottled-laden truck while the truck driver was attempting to make a U-turn towards the Ibadan axis, adding that, twenty one people were involved in the crash, eight people lost their lives on the spot, including four males, two females, and two toddlers, while eleven people sustained varying degrees of injuries and two males were uninjured. 

Commander Akinbiyi explained that the injured victims were taken to the State Hospital, Abeokuta, and FAMOBIS Hospital, as there was flow of traffic along the expressway after the evacuation.

Transportation

Two Injured in Ibadan Road Accident

By Web News 1093

No fewer than two persons were seriously injured in the early hours today when a car loaded with about fifty bags of rice collided with another car at scout camp, challenge Ibadan.

Radio Nigeria correspondent who was at the scene of the accident reports that the car with registration number LSD 258 DJ overloaded with bags of rice was descending from scout camp when it suddenly had brake failure leading to collision with another car with registration APP 480 EL.

Radio Nigeria also gathered that the cars after collision summer saulted while drivers of the two vehicles sustained serious injury in the process.

In an interview, an eyewitness, Mr Tunde Afolabi said it was difficult to rescue the two occupant of the vehicles.

The injured drivers as at the time of filing this report had been conveyed to an unknown hospital while the bags of rice had been offloaded and taken to the nearest police station.

The development according our correspondent had led to heavy traffic along Molete Challenge road.

Funmi Obagbayegun