Five persons has been confirmed dead while 13 others were injured in an automobile accident that happened yesterday along the Lagos/Ibadan Expressway.
The accident occurred at the Eldorado axis at Ayetoro village, Obafemi-Owode Local Government Area, Ogun State. It involved a DAF truck with number plate GNN 774 XA and a white Mazda commercial bus with number plate APP 36 XA.
It was gathered that the accident was caused by the high speed of the driver of the Mazda bus travelling outward Lagos. The driver, it was learnt, lost control after he overtook other vehicles and rammed the vehicle into the stationary DAF truck.
Eyewitness accounted that had it that a nursing mother and two of her children were among the five persons who died in the auto crash, which occurred around 1.20pm.
Both Sector Commander of the Federal Road Safety Corps, Ogun State, Adegoke Adetunji and the Public Relations Officer of the Ogun State Traffic Compliance and Enforcement Corps, Babatunde Akinbiyi, confirmed the accident.
They said the five victims were four males and a female.
Akinbiyi, speaking with our correspondent on the telephone, attributed the cause of the accident to speeding and dangerous driving by the driver of the Mazda commercial bus.
He added that the driver of the Mazda bus wrongly overtook another vehicle on the expressway before crashing into the truck.
Adetunji, in his own account, explained that 23 people were involved with were involved out which five persons lost their lives while 16 others were critically injured.
The FRSC boss also confirmed that the driver of the Mazda passenger bus violated the speed limit, wrongly overtook other vehicles, lost control and eventually bashed into the moving truck from the rear.
Akinbiyi stated the corpses had been deposited at the morgue of the Olabisi Onabanjo Unversity Teaching Hospital, Sagamu, while those injured were also receiving treatment in the same hospital.
