Nine persons have been declared dead in an accident that happened in the early hours of Monday on the ever busy Lagos- Ibadan expressway.
Aside the 9 persons, three persons were also confirmed injured.
It was gathered that the accident occurred around 5: 30.a.m. at Ayetoro village of the expressway in the Obafemi – Owode local government area of Ogun State.
According to eyewitness, the accident involved a Toyota Hiace commercial passengers’ bus with registration number UYY 165 ZY Toyota and an articulated truck marked DKA 244 XC.
The Public Education Officer of the Federal Road Safety Corp (FRSC) for the Ogun Sector Command, Florence Okpe, who confirmed the accident, attributed the cause of the crash to “excessive speed and fatigue”.
Okpe explained that the driver of the Toyota Hiace bus was engrossed in excessive speed, which made him to lose control of the vehicle and consequently rammed into a stationary truck.
The FRSC’s spokesperson further disclosed that the injured victim were evacuated to a private hospital in Mowe for treatment, while corpses of those that died were also deposited at the morgue of another private hospital in Sagamu.
