7 Burnt To Death, 14 Injured In Lagos-Ibadan Road Crash

No fewer than Seven persons, including two children were on Sunday burnt to death in an accident along the Lagos-Ibadan expressway.

Fourteen other persons sustained varying degrees of injury in the accident which occurred at OPIC axis of the highway.

It was gathered that, the bus crashed and went up in flames.

The lone crash involving a Mazda bus marked BDG993YG occurred at about 10:45am on Sunday.

The Spokesman of the Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC), Florence Okpe confirmed the incident in Abeokuta.

Okpe said a total number of 22 persons – seven male adult, eight female adult, four male children and three female children – were involved in the crash, out of which seven died while fourteen others were injured.

She blamed the crash on “excessive speed and brake failure which led to loss of control.”

Okpe explained that the vehicle went up in flames after it crashed and burnt some of the occupants to death.

The FRSC Spokesman said the injured victims had been taken to Lagos state Accident Emergency center, Ojota while the corpses were deposited at Olabisi Onabajo University Teaching Hospital morgue Sagamu.

She quoted the Sector Commander, Ahmed Umar to have commiserated with the family of the victims and advised motorists “to shun speeding and always conduct a routine vehicle check for good maintenance and replacement of any defect.”