10 Die, 9 Injured In Ogun Fatal Road Accident
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No fewer than 10 persons have been confirmed dead, while nine persons were said to have sustained different spans of injuries in an auto crash that happened on Saturday along Lagos-Ibadan highway.
The accident took place around 04:30am beside Oniworo village, few meters away from the Foursquare Gospel Camp inbound Lagos, in the Odeda local government area of Ogun State.
The auto crash involving a grey-coloured Toyota Hiace passenger bus with registration number: KLD 539 XA, collided with a stationary Mack truck with a registration number NSR 08 YJX.
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The Public Relations Officer (PRO) of the Ogun State Traffic Compliance and Enforcement agency (TRACE) and the Public Education Officer for the State Sector Command of the Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC), Babatunde Akinbiyi, and Superintendent Route Commander Florence Okpe, respectively, confirmed the incident to newsmen in Abeokuta.
Attributing the the crash to road obstruction, poor visibility and excessive speed, Okpe told newsmen that the driver of the passenger Toyota Hiace bus, was on a top speed and veered into the stationary containerized Mack truck from the rear which occasioned in the fatality of the crash.
Explaining that the containerized truck blocked the road after developing some faults, the Road Safety Public Education Officer opined that the poor vision championed by the harmattan may have contributed to the crash.
Expressing sadness over the crash, the FRSC, however, advised family members of the crash victims to contact the Ogunmakin office of the Corps for more information about the crash.
He stressed that the injured victims have all been evacuated to a private hospital in the Ogere Remo axis of the State for medical attention, adding the deceased have been deposited in a private morgue at Ipara area of the State.
May God grant healing to the injured and eternal rest to the deceased.