Saturday witnessed a harvest of deaths in the South West where four persons lost their lives to an auto crash on the Ibadan-Oyo Expressway even as three others were killed in an accident involving a Rio car and a Sino truck on the Abeokuta-Sagamu expressway in Ogun.
Reports said many others were injured in the both accidents.
Unit Commander of the FRSC at Atiba, Oyo, DCC Bayode Olugbesan, blamed the first accident on over speeding and overloading.
Olugbesan said the 14-seater bus was carrying 20 persons when the accident occurred.
He said corpses of the dead had been deposited at the mortuary of the State Hospital, Oyo.
“The bus, conveying all-male passengers was travelling toward the northern part of the country when the accident occurred,’’ he said.
“The bus was designed to carry 14 passengers, but was loaded with 20 passengers,’’ he noted.
Olugbesan appealed to road users to be careful while driving, and to avoid over speeding, overloading and night travels
In Ogun State where a Rio car and a Sino truck collided on the Abeokuta-Sagamu expressway at 9:44 a.m. was caused by excessive speed and loss of control on the part of the Rio car driver.
Mr Babatunde Akinbiyi, the Spokesperson of Ogun Traffic Compliance and Enforcement Corps (TRACE), confirmed the incident to newsmen in Abeokuta.
Akinbiyi disclosed that the accident occurred near Day Waterman College and involved a black Rio car marked AKD 827 DV and a white Sino truck with registration number WDL 466 XA.
He said that the car with four church officials was coming from Oke-Aragbiji in Osun.
According to him, eye witnesses said the driver lost control due to excessive speed, ran over the median, hit and uprooted the street light before colliding head-on with the truck loaded with cement.
“The truck was coming outbound Abeokuta.
“Instantly, the three men of God died due to the impact of the collision while the driver and the passenger in front were injured,” he said.
Akinbiyi added that the injured victims were evacuated to Ijaye General Hospital in Abeokuta for treatment and the deceased deposited at the hospital morgue.
He stated that the two vehicles had been taken to Owode-Egba Divisional Police Command for investigation.
The TRACE spokesperson commiserated with the deceased families, calling on motorists to eschew excessive speed and always take adequate rest before embarking on a journey.
