Twelve die in Kwara multiple road accidents

An early morning accident involving three vehicles: a trailer, a hummer bus and a Volvo car, yesterday, claimed 12 lives including six males along Ilorin/Ogbomoso Expressway, Ilorin.

The incident, which occurred some metres away from the International Airport, Ilorin according to the Kwara State Sector Commander of Federal Road Safety Commission (FRSC), Jonathan Owoade, was due to the reckless driving by one of the drivers.

When The Guardian visited the scene around 9:08am, it was a gory sight as nothing could be recovered from all the vehicles, with smell of burnt human flesh pervading the area.

Owoade said the accident occurred around 6:47am, though the report got to his office at 7:50 am with his men arriving the scene some 16 minutes later.

One of the vehicles, an 18-seater commercial hummer bus had some passengers trapped inside and were burnt beyond recognition.

No first aide could be administered at the scene, as the six survivors suffered varying degrees of burns and were rushed to Accident and Emergency Wing of University of Ilorin Teaching Hospital (UITH) for treatments. A survivor said the Hummer bus allegedly took off from Lagos heading to Sokoto State when the trailer fully loaded with bags of cement collided with it.

The badly burnt remains of the victims were deposited at the morgue of the tertiary health institution.

Owoade appealed to motorists plying major roads in the state to shun over speeding and reckless driving to reduce road crashes.