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  • Accident claims seven lives on Ogbomoso-Oyo road

    Accident claims seven lives on Ogbomoso-Oyo road

    Seven people lost their lives on Sunday when a commercial bus and an articulated vehicle ran into each other on the Ogbomoso-Oyo road.

    The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) gathered that many other occupants of the bus sustained various degrees of injuries in the accident.

    An eyewitness who gave his name as Tayo told NAN that the accident happened when an Ilorin-bound commercial bus overtook a sport utility vehicle and tried to maneuver its way back to its lane but failed.

    “When I got to the accident scene some moments after it occurred, people were assisting the accident victims,” he said.

    He said that the driver of the bus did not sustain any injury.

    NAN gathered that six people died on the spot while another victim died on the way to the hospital.

    The Public Relations Officer of the Oyo police command, Mr Addekunle Ajisebutu, said he had not been briefed by the divisional police officers in Oyo town and Ogbomoso.

    In another development, a truck laden with 33,000 litres of fuel was said to have somersaulted ‎in the Taki area of Ogbomoso and emptied its contents in a gutter.

    According to another eyewitness who preferred anonymity, many people rushed to the scene to scoop fuel.‎

    Security men were said to have been dispatched to the scene to prevent any casualty.

  • Three die in Ebonyi auto crash

    Three die in Ebonyi auto crash

    Three persons have died in a ghastly motor accident which occurred at the  Enugu-Abakaliki express road.

    The accident, according to an eyewitness, involved two commercial buses, travelling in opposite direction on the ever-busy express road.

    The source said that one of the buses attempted to overtake a smaller vehicle going to Abakaliki.

    He said: “The bus driver didn’t see an oncoming bus from the opposite direction and this resulted in a fatal head-on collision.

    “Cars traveling stopped to rescue the victims as a rescue effort saw the injured and the dead evacuated to a nearby hospital.”

    Sector Commander of the Federal Road Safety Commission (FRSC) in Ebonyi state, Mr. Charlse Aborchi, confirmed the accident.

    He said that only three passengers who were males died from the crash.

    “Our officers responded instantly on receiving the news of the crash and led the evacuation of the dead and injured.

    He noted that the dead and injured were taken to the Annunciation hospital in Emene, Enugu state.

    “I advise motorists to shun reckless driving as it has resulted to the wasteful loss of lives on the roads.

    According to him, over speeding makes drivers struggle to apply sudden brake and this results to deaths when the brake application fails.

  • Lady survives 18-sitter bus fatal accident, seeks support

    Lady survives 18-sitter bus fatal accident, seeks support

    A lady, Olatokun Olubisi who was involved in a fatal accident in which all passengers were reported dead is alive.
    The accident occurred on August 19 along the Lagos-Ibadan Express road when a trailer crashed into an 18-sitter bus carrying Olubisi and other the passengers.
    Olubisi is receiving treatment at the emergency ward at University College Hospital, UCH Ibadan, with the family and church battling to pay the medical bills.
    ” We need help from kind hearted people to bring her back to her feet to celebrate God’s faithfulness,” Pastor Emmanuel Falodun of Power for Exploits International stated in an email to The Nation.

    Olubisi packed with other victims as dead from the accident scene
    Olubisi packed with other victims as dead from the accident scene

  • IGP tells doctors to assist accident victims, others

    IGP tells doctors to assist accident victims, others

    The Inspector-General of Police, Solomon Arase, has urged medical personnel and members of the public to attend to accident victims and persons with gunshot injuries.

    He, however, noted that the police should be informed for necessary action after attending to them.

    He explained that the call is necessary due to neglects and untimely death of victims following  fear of being implicated without police involvement.

    The Police High Command also ordered its officers not to harass good Samaritans in this regard, but endeavour to elicit correct facts in relation to incidents from them.

    This is contained in a statement issued yesterday by the Force spokesman, Emmanuel Ojukwu.

    The statement reads: “Doctors on duty are equally duty bound to treat victims of gunshot wounds and further inform police of relevant facts.The safety of Nigerians is a collaborative effort of all and sundry.

    “Police, therefore, enjoin citizens not to relent in their cooperative attitude in ensuring safety of all. While they are also to report any suspicious person or persons to the nearest police station”.

  • Kogi House of Assembly Clerk designate, colleague die in car accident

    The Kogi State House of Assembly Clerk-in waiting, Barrister Peter Willy was yesterday involved in an auto crash, along the Lokoja-Abuja Road.

    The accident occurred on Wednesday, on the outskirts of Koto-Karfe.

    Also involved in the accident was a lawyer and colleague, while the driver of the vehicle in which they were travelling was simply identified as Agada.

    The trio, it was gathered, were on their way to Abuja to witness the collection of the governorship nomination form by Governor Idris Wada who is seeking re-election on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).

  • Three die in Akure/Ilesa road accident

    Three persons were feared dead  in a road crash involving six vehicles yesterday on Akure/Ilesa road.

    The accident, which occurred in the early hours of the day, involved a petrol tanker, a truck, a luxury bus, two cars and two buses coming from different directions on the road.

    Witnesses said the carnage was caused by excessive speeding by the tanker driver.

    It was gathered that some vehicles coming from Akure end of the road rammed into the tanker while it was attempting to overtake other vehicles coming from the Ilesa end of the road.

    Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) officials at the scene of the accident said the victims were rushed to a medical centre before they arrived at the scene.

    The FRSC men also confirmed that the accident was caused due to high speed.

    They said the vehicles involved in the accident would be impounded.

    It was gathered that many of the passengers in the vehicles sustained serious injuries.

    The accident led to traffic on the busy road, a situation which gave the FRSC officials hectic time to control.

  • Multiple accident kill three on Akure/Ilesa road

    Multiple accident kill three on Akure/Ilesa road

    A multiple auto crash involving six vehicles Thursday claimed the lives of three persons along Akure/Ilesa road.

    The accident, which occurred in the early hours of the day involved a petrol tanker, a truck, a luxurious bus, two cars and two buses coming from different directions.

    An eye witness said the carnage was caused by excessive speed on the part of the tanker driver.

    It was gathered that the vehicles coming from Akure end of the road rammed into the tanker which in an attempt to over take other vehicles from the Ilesa end of the road swerved to the other lane.

    Officials of the Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) at the scene of the accident said the victims of the auto crash were rushed to a medical centre before their arrival at the scene.

    The Road Safety Officials confirmed that the accident was caused by high speed.

    They said the vehicles involved in the accident would be impounded.

    Two of the vehicles involved in the accident rammed into the bush, while one almost entered into a valley by the road side.

    It was gathered that many of the passengers in the vehicles sustained serious injuries.

    The accident also affected free flow of traffic on the busy road, as vehicles were prevented from moving freely while FRSC officials controlled the heavy traffic on the road.

  • Ogun traffic agency returns N151,700 to 75-yr-old accident victim

    Ogun State Traffic Compliance and Enforcement Corps (TRACE) on Friday handed over the sum of N151,700 recovered from the scene of an accident to a victim, Alhaji Jimoh Oguntoye.

    The money was handed over to the septuagenarian at a private hospital in Abeokuta, the state capital.

    Oguntoye was said to be the driver of the Mercedes Benz jeep 500 ML marked (LAGOS) KRD 933 BC which crashed into a passenger bus at Onipepeye axis of the Abeokuta – Sagamu expressway penultimate Monday.

    Two persons including a Mass Communication student of Moshood Abiola Polytechnic, Abeokuta, lost their lives, while 16 others were injured in the accident.

    The Director of Operation and Acting Commandant of the Corps, Seni Ogunyemi,  said the money was retrieved from the Mercedes jeep by TRACE’s rescue team led by Commander Adeola Adekoya which evacuated the victims to hospital.

  • Five die, six injured in two Lagos accidents

    Five persons have been confirmed dead and 11 others injured in two separate accidents in Lagos on Tuesday.
    The accidents which occurred at the Agege and Epe areas of the state, claimed two and three lives respectively.
    It was gathered that the two victims of the Agege mishap were ‘hangers on’ of a train‎ which crushed a truck that had brake failure and entered the railway on Monday evening.
    While the driver of the truck was said to ‎have escaped, two of the three “ticketless’ passengers on the train died on the spot, while the third person sustained serious injuries and was rushed to the General Hospital at Ikeja.
    Similarly, the Epe accident which claimed three lives and injured‎ 10 persons occurred after a 13-seater passenger bus marked AAA868XJ, belonging to Young Shall Grow Motors, hit a truck carrying a caterpillar.
    ‎Confirming the incidents, both the Lagos State Fire Service Director, Rasaq Fadipe and the southwest spokesman for the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA), Ibrahim Farinloye said the injured were taken to the Epe General Hospital for treatment.
    They stated that all the deceaseds in both accidents were men, adding that their remains have been deposited at the morgues.
    The duo explained that ‎the victims were trapped underneath the heavy duty vehicle and it took time before rescue workers could evacuate them.
    According to Fadipe, the caterpillar was wider than the road, and the bus in a bd to overtake the truck, hit the caterpillar resulting in the mishap.
    ‎On the train mishap, Farinloye said: “The truck broke a barricade of railway crossing iron bars and entered the train track. The driver of the truck managed to escape but two ticketless passengers who hung on the train died, while the third one sustained injuries and was rushed to the general hospital.”

  • Three dead as bus collides with trailer in Lagos

    No fewer than three persons, including the driver of a 13-seater inter-state passenger bus on Tuesday lost their lives in an accident along Ajah-Epe expressway in Lagos.

    The Director, Lagos State Fire Service, Mr. Rasak Fadipe, made the disclosure to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), saying that the remaining 10 passengers sustained various degrees of injury.

    Fadipe said that they got information about the accident involving the bus belonging to the Young Shall Grow Motors and the trailer conveying a caterpillar at about 9 a.m.

    He said the bus had Reg. No. AAA 868 XJ.

    Fadipe said preliminary investigation revealed that the bus driver in an attempt to overtake the heavy duty truck coming from Epe hit part of the caterpillar.

    He explained that the caterpillar loaded on the truck was wider than the normal road.

    Fadipe said that it took some time before they were able to evacuate the dead bodies and the injured passengers.

    The director said that Lagos State Ambulance Service conveyed the corpses and injured persons to Epe General Hospital.