Fatal Auto Crash At Lagos-Ibadan Highway On Sunday With Shocking Death Toll

A fatal multiple automobile
accident at the Lagos-Ibadan
expressway, involving a fuel
laden tanker which collided with
a commercial bus, killing all the
passengers including the driver
on the spot.
The accident, which occurred at
about 1:00 p.m. on Sunday
around Fidiwo-Ajebo axis of the
express road, involved a cement
truck marked AJG 40 XA, a
petroleum tanker truck with
registration number RAN 571
XA and a passenger bus marked
AGL 373 XR.
According to reports, the fuel
tanker had attempted to
overtake the cement laden
Dangote truck at a road
diversion point before a head-
on collision with the passenger
bus which was travelling to
Lagos – in opposite direction.
Babatunde Akinbiyi who is the
Public Relations Officer (PRO)
of the Ogun state Traffic
Compliance and Enforcement
Agency (TRACE), confirmed
the accident. He said that all
the 18 passengers in the bus
and the driver died on the
spot.
Akinbiyi explained that there
had been an on-going repair
works along the Lagos-Ibadan
expressway, which necessitated
the road diversion at the point
of the crash.
Recovery operation is still on-
going, says the TRACE
spokesman, with the combined
efforts of TRACE personnel,
men of the Nigerian Police as
well as officials of the Federal
Road Safety Corp (FRSC) ,
while the petroleum products
being conveyed to Ibadan, Oyo
State capital, was also being
trans-loaded into another
truck.
The Sector Commander, Ogun
State Command of the FRSC,
Adetunji Adegoke, blamed the
cause of the accident on
“wrongful overtaking.” He said
the dead victims were taken to
FOS Mortuary, Ipara, near
Sagamu.
In his candid advise, Adegoke
charged “drivers to obey road
traffic rules and regulations,
avoid wrong overtaking, observe
speed limit as well as shun the
use of expired/tokunbo tyres
to avoid accidents on the
roads”.