Nine killed, three injured in Lagos-Ibadan expressway crash

No fewer than nine people have been confirmed dead, while three others sustained varying degrees of injuries in an accident that occurred yesterday morning along the Ibadan-Lagos Expressway.

The accident, which happened around 5:30 a.m. at Ayetoro village on the expressway in the Obafemi-Owode Local Government Area of Ogun State, involved a Toyota Hiace commercial passenger bus with registration number UYY 165 ZY TOYOTA and an articulated truck marked DKA 244 XC.

The Public Education Officer of the Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) for the Ogun Sector Command, Florence Okpe, who confirmed the accident, attributed the cause of the crash to “excessive speed and fatigue.”

Okpe explained that the driver of the Toyota Hiace bus was speeding excessively, causing him to lose control of the vehicle and consequently ram into a stationary truck.

The FRSC spokesperson further disclosed that the injured victims were evacuated to a private hospital in Mowe for treatment, while the corpses of those who died were deposited at the morgue of another private hospital in Sagamu.