7 dead and 4 injured as truck rams into two vehicles after losing control on Lagos-Ibadan expressway
7 people have been confirmed dead and 4 others injured as an articulated truck rammed into two vehicles after losing control on Lagos-Ibadan expressway.
The incident was confirmed by the Route Commander and Chief Public Education Officer of Ogun state sector command of the Federal Roads Safety Corps, Florence Okupe, in a statement in Abeokuta, the state capital.
A total of 15 people were involved, comprising 13 male adults and two females.
According to her, the suspected cause of the multiple crash was excessive speed on the part of the Mack truck, which led to loss of control and ramming into the other two vehicles.
“The injured victims were taken to Divine Touch Hospital and Glory Center Hospital Ibafo while the dead bodies were taken to Idera morgue Sagamu.
“The crash vehicles were towed off the road for free flow of traffic.
“The Sector Commander, Fasakin Akinwumi, visited the crash scene for further investigation as he sympathised with the families of the crash victims and enjoined them to contact FRSC IBAFO for more information”
In another development, the driver and conductor of a BRT bus have fled for their lives, abandoning passengers to their fate as a BRT bus caught fire at Maryland, Lagos State, on Saturday morning.
According to eyewitnesses, the bus was coming from Ikorodu, heading to CMS, when the sad incident occurred.
One of the passengers on the bus said the fire started as smoke from the driver’s side.
According to her, the passengers initially thought the smoke emanated from other buses, however, the small smoke soon worsened, immediately sending them all into panic mode.
“As soon as we saw that the smoke grew bigger, we immediately rushed off the bus before the fire ignited”, she said, adding that none of the passengers sustained any injury.
She added that the driver fled the scene immediately after the fire started.
“The driver and the conductor ran away. They didn’t even wait to see what would happen to us.
“Definitely, they knew what happened. They knew the bus was bad before putting it on the road and risking our lives,” she alleged.
