No fewer than seven persons have been recorded dead in a fatal road crash that occurred along the Lagos-Ibadan expressway.
The crash involved three vehicles, a Mack truck with registration number SEY363YY, a tanker registered as T2900LA and a yellow bus LSD180YA.
DAILY POST reports that the accident which happened at about 7 a.m on Saturday involved 15 passagers .
Confirming the incident, the spokesperson of the Federal Road Safety Corps, Ogun Sector Command, Florence Okpe, attributed the cause of the crash to excessive speed on the part of the truck driver.
Okpe state the truck lost control and rammed into the other two vehicles.
She said, “A total of 15 people were involved which comprised of thirteen male adults and two female adults, four persons were injured, that is three male adults and one female adult, while seven people were recorded dead from the multiple crash (six male adults and one female adult).
“ The suspected cause of the multiple crash was excessive speed on the part of the Mack truck which led to loss of control and rammed into the other two vehicles”;
According to her, the injured victims were taken to Divine Touch Hospital and Glory Center Hospital Ibafo, while the bodies of the dead were deposited at Idera morgue Sagamu and the crash vehicles towed off the road for free Flow of traffic.
The Sector Commander, Fasakin Akinwumi, on visiting the scene, sympathized with the families of the crash victims and enjoined them to contact FRSC IBAFO for more information.
