Four die, 21 injured in Ogun road accidents

Four people yesterday died while 21 others sustained injuries in separate  accidents on the Lagos-Ibadan and Lagos-Abeokuta expressways. The spokeswoman of the Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC), Ogun command, Florence Okpe, confirmed the accidents to journalists in Abeokuta on Monday. According to her, the first accident which occurred around the CONOIL area of the Lagos-Abeokuta […]

Four people yesterday died while 21 others sustained injuries in separate  accidents on the Lagos-Ibadan and Lagos-Abeokuta expressways.

The spokeswoman of the Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC), Ogun command, Florence Okpe, confirmed the accidents to journalists in Abeokuta on Monday.

According to her, the first accident which occurred around the CONOIL area of the Lagos-Abeokuta expressway involved a Lexus RX350, marked APP 541 GY and a Bajaj motorcycle, registered as TTD 017 QR.

Okpe disclosed that, the motorcyclist and his two passengers died in the accident. 

“Five persons were involved in the accident, two persons were unhurt and three persons were killed.

“The suspected cause of the crash was route violation on the part of the motorcyclist as he collided with the vehicle.

“The rider and the two passengers died in the accident,” Okpe said.

She added that the corpses were deposited at Ifo General Hospital morgue.

The second accident, which occurred in the early hours of Monday on the Lagos-Ibadan expressway, involved a luxury bus and a truck with no registration number on both vehicles.

Okpe disclosed that, 40 people were involved in the accident while the driver of the bus was killed.

She explained that, the truck rammed into the stationed bus and killed the driver of the bus who was under the bus trying to do some repair.

Okpe attributed the cause of the accident to excessive speeding on the part of the truck driver.