Fatal accidents claim 12 persons in Rivers, Edo, Ogun

Memoye Oghu, Port Harcourt with agency reports

Twelve persons have been confirmed killed in separate fatal motor accidents in Rivers, Edo and Ogun states respectively.

In Rivers, two persons lost their lives while two others were seriously injured in a ghastly motor accident along the Ahoada axis of the East-West Road.

The incident occurred when a Toyota Sienna bus traveling from Port Harcourt to Bayelsa State rammed into an oncoming truck as it tried to overtake another vehicle.

Our correspondent reports that one passenger in the Sienna bus from Benue State died on the spot before he was rushed to Ahoada general hospital.

An eye witness informed The Daily Times that before the accident around 4.00pm, there was a heavy downpour and that a combined team of the police and Federal Road Safety Corp operatives, helped in taking the victims to the Ahoada General Hospital for immediate medical attention.

An emergency nurse, Mark-bonaventure Egbule, who cared for the accident victims at the General Hospital Ahoada, told our correspondent that two of the four accident victims that were brought to the hospital died while the other two survived.

Similarly, the Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) in Edo State confirmed that five lives were lost in a multiple road accident on Sunday along the busy Auchi-Okene-Highway.

FRSC Sector Commander in Edo State, Anthony Oko, who confirmed the incident in Auchi, said the accident happened at about 11 a.m. at Jattu junction in Etsako West Local Government Area of the state.

According to Oko, the five persons died on the spot, while six others sustained various degrees of injury.

“I can confirm to you that five persons have been killed in a multiple accident at Jattu junction along the Auchi-Okene-Highyway.

“The dead included three males and two females,” Oko said, adding that the accident occurred as a result of the brake failure of an articulated vehicle, belonging to Dangote Group of Company.

In Ogun State, five persons on Sunday died in an accident involving a Primera car and a Volvo truck around Olorunsogo Village, Kobape -Siun axis on the Abeokuta – Sagamu Expressway.

Spokesperson, Traffic Compliance and Enforcement Corps (TRACE), Mr. Babatunde Akinbiyi, who confirmed the incident in Abeokuta, explained that the accident which occurred around 1:37pm was caused by excessive speeding and loss of control on the part of the Primera car driver.

“According to an eyewitness, the car marked KTU 875 DP lost control, somersaulted and rammed into a stationary Volvo truck marked LAR 119 YD, parked off the road from behind.

“The accident involved five persons, three of them were male and two females.

We learnt the Primera car is commercial, used in running shuttle from Sagamu to Abeokuta. All the five casualties involved in the accident were in the car when the accident happened,” he said.

Akinbiyi noted that the corpses of the dead had been deposited at the morgue of General Hospital, Ijaye, Abeokuta.