10 People have died while 6 Others were injured in an accident involving a commercial bus on the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway on Tuesday.
The Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) Sector Commander in Oyo State, Joshua Adekanye, confirmed this in an interview with Newsmen on Tuesday in Ibadan.
Mr Adekanye said the lone accident that happened around 6.30 a.m. on Tuesday around the Guru Mahajji area, involved a commercial bus with registration number TRK 135 ZY and a hit-and-run truck carrying a container.
He said the commercial bus which was travelling overnight from Malumfashi, Katsina State, suddenly came across the truck carrying a container that was driving against the traffic on the very busy highway.
Mr Adekanye added that the bus, in order to avoid the truck, hit the container and fell into a ditch resulting in the death of 10 persons and injuring six others while the truck run away.
He disclosed that the total number of people involved in the accident were 18 with the breakdown of 17 male adults and a male child.
According to Mr Adekanye all the “People killed in the accident are 10 male adults.
While “People injured are six, including five male adults and one male child, while two adult males were unhurt,” he said.
The sector commander said that the injured persons have been taken to Ibadan Central Hospital for medical attention while the dead persons were taken to Adeoyo Hospital morgue.
He said that the police division at the tollgate area of Ibadan had taken charge of the crashed vehicle.
The sector commander called on motorists to always shun night travels and drive against traffic, saying the accident might not have happened if the bus was not travelling overnight from Katsina State.
Mr Adekanye who later spoke to TVC News on the accident said the Federal Road Safety Corps will ramp up its advocacy campaign for drivers and travellers during this period to ensure that such an incident does not occur again.
The Guru Maharaji Village of the Lagos/Ibadan Expressway is notorious for a variety of reasons including Crimes, Accidents and Others.
