Get Guardian on GoogleA teenager and three others died in a crash that happened when a bus hit a breakdown truck at Alagbon along Owode-Atan Road in Ogun State.
Three other persons also sustained varying degrees of injuries from the accident.
The crash involved a Sinotruck with no registration number and a white Suzuki minibus with registration Number KTU 874 YJ.
Spokesperson of the Traffic Compliance and Enforcement Corps (TRACE), Babatunde Akinbiyi, confirmed this to newsmen in a statement on Tuesday.
Akinbiyi said that 11 people (two males and nine females) were involved in the accident, while three people (one male and two females) sustained injuries. He said four people (one male, two female adults and one teenager) died.
He blamed the crash on both drivers, saying the bus driver wouldn’t have rammed into the cement-loaded breakdown truck if the truck driver had posted a caution sign on the road.
The TRACE Image Maker said that the injured victims had been taken to General Hospital, Idi-Iroki, by operatives of the Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) before the arrival of its officers.
He said that the accident vehicles had been towed away and the traffic initially affected had been restored.
In other news, The Guardian reported that a pregnant woman was killed in a fatal auto crash along the Sagamu Expressway corridor in Ogun State. The accident, which left several others injured, involved a payloader, a Toyota Camry with registration number AAB-248 MK, and a commercial tricycle marked JGB-643 VD.
Spokesperson for the Ogun State Traffic Compliance and Enforcement Corps, Babatunde Akinbiyi, confirmed the incident to newsmen. He said the crash occurred when the driver of the Toyota Camry lost control of the vehicle, veered off his lane, and rammed into a moving tricycle, killing the pregnant woman instantly.
According to Akinbiyi, the payloader operator, the Camry driver, and other male passengers sustained varying degrees of injuries. He added that the injured victims were taken to nearby hospitals in Sagamu by passers-by, while the body of the deceased was deposited at an undisclosed morgue.
