13 die, 12 injured in Lagos-Ibadan Highway crash
Daily Trust learnt that the bus loaded with 25 passengers instead of 18
FILE PHOTO: An accident scene
Thirteen persons reportedly died Wednesday while 12 others sustained injuries when an overloaded Mazda bus crashed on Lagos-Ibadan expressway.
Our correspondent gathered that the accident, which involved an unregistered Volvo truck and a commercial Mazda bus, occurred around 4 pm.
Daily Trust learnt that the bus loaded with 25 passengers instead of 18 was outbound in Lagos when the incident happened.
The bus driver reportedly overtook a vehicle wrongly and rammed into the truck parked by the roadside, killing nine persons on the spot while four others died at the hospital.
The Public Relations Officer, Ogun State Traffic Compliance and Enforcement Corps (TRACE), Babatunde Akinbiyi, confirmed the incident to newsmen in Abeokuta yesterday.
Akinbiyi said the ill-fated bus carried 25 people, comprising nine men, eight women and eight minors.
He said 12 people, five men, three women and four minors were injured, while 13 persons, comprising four males, five females and four minors died in the accident.
“The commercial bus was coming from Lagos, when it overtook the vehicle at its front wrongly, before ramming into a stationed vehicle at the roadside killing nine persons in the vehicle on the spot.
“The remaining four died at Idera Hospital where they were rescued to by TRACE and Federal Road Safety Corps officials,” he said.
Akinbiyi added that the injured victims have been taken to Idera hospital while remains of the deceased have been deposited at the same hospital mortuary in Sagamu.