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  • 8 die in Benin-Ore road auto crash

    The FRSC on Thursday in Benin confirmed the death of eight persons in auto crash at the Ugbogui axis of the Benin-Ore-Lagos Expressway.

    The FRSC Tollgate Unit Commander, Mr Adewale Ameen, confirmed the incident to newsmen.

    He said the accident involved an 18-seater bus with registration number  CT 874 FST and a Mercedes Benz truck(MUS 570 SS) belonging to a Pentecostal church.

    Ameen, who said that the accident happened early Wednesday, attributed it to fatigue on the part of the bus driver.

    He said the driver rammed the bus into a stationary truck while driving from Lagos to Benin.

    “Although the bus driver survived, eight passengers in the bus died’’, he said.

    The unit commander explained that “it was an avoidable accident because the truck parked well away from the road.

    “From my interaction with the survivors, they had consistently warned the diver about his recklessness before the accident occurred.

    “They were coming from Lagos after an all night prayer session before the accident’’, Ameen said.

  • 4 killed, 14 injured in Ondo auto-crash

    A fatal auto crash that happened at Igbara Oke, Ifedore Local Government Area of Ondo State on Saturday has claimed four lives while 14 others sustained injuries.

    Mr Joseph Ojerinde, Federal Road Safety Commission (FRSC), in charge of field operations, state command, confirmed the incident in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Akure on Sunday.

    The officer said that the accident that happened at 6.30 p.m. was as a result of reckless driving by one of the drivers.

    He said that the auto crash involved a Mazda bus, with registration number Lagos KSF 706 XF carrying 18 passengers and a Honda Accord saloon car with number AA 239 GBH.

    “The two vehicles involved in the crash had a head-on collision.

    “The Honda car made a dangerous overtaking and consequently collided with the bus coming from the opposite direction.

    “We were told that the Honda Accord car dangerously overtook a vehicle and in the process, had a head-on collision with the Mazda bus coming from the other side,” Ojerinde stated.

    “Immediately, we were informed about the accident, our men moved promptly to the scene.’’

    Ojerinde, who said that four under-aged children were also involved in the accident, did not confirm their condition.

    NAN reports that the identities of the victims were not known as at the press time.

    However, Ojerinde said that the bodies of the dead had been deposited at the morgue of the State Specialist Hospital, Akure.

    According to him, the injured had been taken to the General Hospitals in Igbara- Oke and Ilara-Mokin, respectively for treatmen

  • 17 killed in Kwara auto crash

    17 killed in Kwara auto crash

    17 people have died in a ghastly auto crash in Kwara State. The accident, which occurred in the early hours of yesterday at Peke village, Kilometres 16 Ilorin-Jebba expressway, also left no fewer than ten people with varying degrees of injuries. It involved a DAF truck, with registration number XD 762 KNT and two Toyota Hummer buses with registration numbers TAK 113 XA and XC 185 NSK. It was gathered that the accident occurred around 3.30am at the spot where the dualisation of the expressway terminates. According to reports, the truck was said to have rammed into the commercial buses. Eyewitness account said that the Hummer buses, each with 19 passengers, took off from Lagos and were heading for Kastina State. The Sector Commander of the Federal Roads Safety Commission (FRSC) in Kwara state, Mrs. Mary Wakama, who confirmed the incident, said the corpses of the deceased had been deposited at the University of Ilorin Teaching Hospital (UITH). She added that two victims with severe injuries had been taken to Sobi Specialist Hospital, while others with minor injuries are receiving treatment at private hospitals. Mrs. Wakawa, who blamed the accident on attitude of most drivers in the country, discouraged night travelling, saying it portends danger. She also said that the auto crash may have been caused by fatigue on the part of the truck driver, adding that visibility is always poor in the night, stressing that assistance would also be difficult to get at night.

  • 14 perish in Hadejia-Kano road auto crash

    No fewer than fourteen people confirmed dead in an auto crash that occurred after Ringim town along Hadejia-Kano road Monday evening

    Eleven of the victims were were palace guard to the Emir of Hadejia in Jigawa State.

    Reports from the state had it that the palace guards were in an 18-seater bus from Hadejia en route Kano to receive the Emir, His Highness Alhaji Adamu Abubakar Maje Haruna at Aminu Kano International Airport when the accident took place.

    Confirming the incident to our reporter in the state, the Information Officer of Hadejia Local Government, Muhammad Garba Talaki said the accident was as a result of heavy downpour at that time the bus conveying the palace guards had a head-on collision with tanker containing highly inflammable content.

    The vehicle which was coming from the opposite direction (Kano side) to Hadejia, instantly went up in flames burned all the people occupants of the bus beyond recognition.

    He said the palace guards and occupants of the trailer were burnt while their bodies had been taken to Hadejia for burial.

    An eye witness, Malam Shuaibu said “their (Royal Guard) bus was coming from Hadejia to Kano on a top speed, when it had a head-on collision with the tanker trailer and the tanker caught fire from behind. Within some seconds, all the vehilces where in flame”.

  • Pastor’s wife, children die in Niger auto crash

    No fewer than eight passengers were burnt to death on Saturday night in an auto crash along Bida-Minna road involving a trailer and a Toyota Hiace bus belonging to Niger State Transport Company (NSTA).

    Four of the accident victims are members of the family of the Pastor of the Potter Porch Church Minna. They were his wife, Mrs. Hellen Samuel, her three children, Saviour, Insight and Purity.

    The accident occured at about 8 pm on Saturday at Kakanpegi village, about 55 kilometres to Minna, Niger state capital.

    Eye witness Alhaji Hamisu Ndajiwo told The Nation that the NSTA bus in the cause of avoiding a bad portion of the Bida – Minna road ran into a trailer, crashed into a nearby push before the vehicles went in flames having all but one passenger burnt to death.

    Another eyewitness, Malam Ibrahim Hussaini, a staff of Niger State Emergency Management Agency said the inferno that ensued after crash rendered the villagers and other motorist helpless in rescuing the victims.

    According to him, “I was at the scene of the accident few moment it happened. Oh my God we saw people burning before our very eyes and we cannot do anything about it.

    “Only one passenger, a boy young boy who was badly injured escaped the inferno and he was crying and asking us to help to save his mother from the burning vehicle but we were helpless as the blaze was too much, for anyone brave it,” Hussaini recalled.

    He further said that the number of the victims would have been high but for some passengers that dropped at Bida. The NSTA bus left Lagos for Minna on Saturday morning.

    Confirming the casuality figure the Special Adviser to the Niger state Governor on Emergency and Disaster Management , Mohammed Shaba said that eight bodies have been recovered from the scene of the accident, even though the bus was believed to have carried 18 passengers from Lagos.

    Shaba also said that the bodies of the victims have been deposited at the General Hospital Minna.

    The NISEMA boss said that investigation has shown that the NSTA bus ran into the trailer whose head lamps were off and not as a result of bad road.

    “We have established that the NSTA bus ran into the trailer because the trailer had none of its head lamps on. The accident was not as a result of bad road but the failure of the driver of the trailer, who is currently on the run to put on its vehicle’s head lamps,” Shaba told our Correspondent on phone on Sunday.

    He further said that only seven bodies of the victims are now in mortuary as the driver of the NSTA was buried yesterday morning in accordance with Islamic rites.

    Shaba also said that state government would pick the medical bill of the only survivor, adding that the government would shoulder the funeral rites of all the victims and pay compensation to the families of the victims.

    Though Sunday service held at the Potter Porch Church Minna but church members were in grief mood over the loss of their pastor’s wife and kids as the widower, Pastor Ibrahim Samuel maintained sober mood  while the service lasted.

    He eventually broke the news to his congregation at the end of the service

  • Two killed, 16 injured in Ibadan auto crash

    Two people were reported dead in an accident on the Lagos-Ibadan expressway on Friday. The accident occurred at the Ajanla Farm axis of the road near Ibadan, the Oyo State capital, at about 9 am. According to an eyewitness, the accident involved a fullyloaded commercial white Toyota Hiace bus, marked Lagos XA 889 SMK and an unregistered Liberty Sport Utility Vehicle (SUV). It was learnt that the SUV, which was heading towards Abuja from Lagos, overtook the bus dangerously, thereby forcing the bus to hit it from behind. The four occupants of the SUV were said to have escaped with minor injuries. Two of the occupants of the bus died before they could get help, leaving the rest with varying degrees of injuries. The accident caused serious traffic gridlock, forcing travelers and other road users to spend several hours in holdup. The eye- witness explained that men of the Federal Road Safety Corp (FRSC) and the police later arrived the scene to rescue the injured. The two corpses were taken to State Hospital, Adeoyo, Ibadan, while the injured were taken to the University College Hospital (UCH) and a private hospital for treatment.

  • Three die in ‘Good Friday auto crash’

    Three persons were killed and their bodies burnt when a Volkswagen bus marked LAGOS XM 587 EKY, going to Abeokuta from Lagos, lost control and crashed into the median.

    The Federal Road Safety Commission Unit Commander, Ota, Mr. Richard Olutiroko, said the accident which occurred in Ijoko – Ota road was caused by an over speeding driver which rammed the bus into the road divider on the expressway and somersaulted severally times before it burst into flame.

    “Three of the six persons in the vehicle were burnt beyond recognition and their remains had been deposited at the Ota General hospital where the three injured victims are also receiving treatments.

    “We want to warn motorists against speed violation and disobedience of other road traffic rules. Those laws were made for our purpose, and they must be obeyed.

    “Most of the deaths we record are totally avoidable if the road users can only keep to the rules and regulations governing proper road procedure,” Olutiroko said at the scene of the accident.

     

  • 29 die in Nepal auto crash

    Police in Nepal said on Saturday that 29 people have died after a bus veered off a mountain road and crashed.

    The BBC reports that the accident happened near the village of Chhatiwan in the western district of Doti.

    Police and local residents helped pull the dead and injured from the scene of the accident, which occurred at night and in foggy conditions.

    Buses are often overcrowded in Nepal and accidents on poorly-maintained mountain roads are common.

    12 passengers who were seriously injured are being treated in hospital, police officer Nara Bahadur Air told the AFP news agency.

    In July, more than 40 people, most of them Hindu pilgrims, were killed in two deadly bus crashes in as many days.

     

  • Kogi Speaker’s convoy in auto crash

    Kogi Speaker’s convoy in auto crash

    … Police escort dies

    … Benue lawmaker slumps, dies

    The convoy of Speaker of the Kogi State House of Assembly, Lawal Jimoh, was on Monday involved in a ghastly motor accident, killing a police escort instantly.

    Just last week, the state governor, Idris Wada, had an auto crash which claimed the life of his Aide- de- Camp, Idris Mohammed.

    The Speaker was said to be travelling to his Okene home town when a heavy duty truck ran into his escort van at Osara along Okene road.

    While the Speaker’s vehicle along with others were not affected by the accident, a police corporal Lamidi Akeem, who was in the affected escort car died on Thursday at the hospital.

    The Speaker’s Chief Press Secretary, Austin Akubo, confirmed the report and said the Speaker’s vehicle was not affected.

    Meanwhile, Benue State was on Thursday thrown into mourning following the death of a former member of the state House of Assembly, Msen Sarwuan.

    The lawmaker’s sudden death shocked the people of the state as many of them wept profusely on hearing the news of his demise.

    Sarwuan slumped and died during early morning exercise in Makurdi, the state capital.

    A member of the family, who pleaded anonymity because he was not authorized to speak to journalists, confirmed that the deceased, who was a one- time caretaker chairman of Buruku local government council, slumped and died during a “keep fit” exercise.

    The family in a statement described the lawmaker’s death as shocking, saying he did not develop any sign of illness.

     

  • Two killed in Okitipupa auto crash

    An accident involving a car and a motorcyclist in Ikoya, Okitipupa Local Government, on Thursday evening killed two people and left one other injured.

    A grey Nissan Primera Saloon car marked LAGOS CY693KJA and an unregistered Qlink Motorcycle were involved in the incident.

    Eye witnesses told the News Agency of Nigeria that the commercial motorcyclist with one passenger was on his way to Okitipupa when he lost control.

    “The okada man struggled to regain control of the motorcycle before he veered off his lane and smashed into the car on the way to Ikoya on the opposite lane,” one of the witnesses told NAN.

    He said the commercial motorcyclist died on the spot while his passenger, a woman, and the driver of the car were injured.

    But the Okitipupa Divisonal Police Officer (DPO), Mr. Titilola Lasisi, who confirmed the incident, said the female passenger later died at the State Specialist Hospital, Okitipupa, while the car driver was receiving treatment.

    He said the body of the commercial motorcyclist and the female passenger had been deposited at the hospital’s morgue while the car driver was receiving treatment at the same hospital.