south-west Nigeria.
Five persons were on Thursday killed, while others
sustained injuries in a road crash on the Sagamu Interchange end of
the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway.
The spokesperson for the Traffic Compliance and Enforcement
Corps in Ogun State, Babatunde Akinbiyi, confirmed the
incident.
He said the crash involved three vehicles: a Mazda space bus, a
tanker and a truck, blaming the accident on reckless driving and
wrongful overtaking.
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“We learnt from the eye witness account that the Space Bus and
tanker were inbound Ibadan from Lagos along the Lagos-Ibadan
Expressway at the diversion axis after Sagamu interchange, when in
an attempt to overtake a truck in front of it had an head-on
collision with another truck coming from Ibadan,” he said.
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“Five people died on the spot including the driver, two injured
while another one was rescued.”
While the tanker driver was said to have fled the accident
scene, the driver of the truck is recuperating at a private
hospital in Sagamu.
Akinbiyi condoled with the families of the deceased, admonishing
motorists to avoid reckless and wrongful overtaken at
diversion and construction zones and maintain the 50kph speed
limit.
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