Between Friday 26 and Sunday 28 scores have lost their lives in different road accidents across the country that happened in Lokoja, Osogbo, Osun State, Ogun and Rivers state

In Okene-Lokoja highway 19 people were reportedly killed in a crash involving a Dangote Truck and Toyota Hiace Bus on Sunday at Okene bypass, on the Okene-Lokoja highway in Kogi State, as a result of one-way driving and wrongful overtaking.

According to the Assistant Corps Marshal and Corps Public Education Officer, Jonas Agwu, the crash investigation report revealed that the crash involved 2 vehicles comprising of a Dangote Truck bearing the following registration details NSH680YJ, and a Toyota Hiace Bus with registration number KMC455ZE.

The Toyota Hiace Bus loaded from Kano was on its lane on the highway when the Dangote Truck driver who drove all the way from Port Harcourt wrongfully overtook a vehicle and collided head-on with the bus. The impact of the collision resulted in a fire inferno that burnt the victims to death.

According to the report, the crash which was caused by route violation ‘One Way’ and wrongful overtaking, involved 22 people all male.

“Unfortunately, 19 people out of the 22 victims were killed and 1 injured. “The remaining 2 victims who got rescued by FRSC operatives without injuries survived the crash because they complied with traffic regulations on compulsory use of seatbelt” he noted.

The corpses of the dead victims whose lives were claimed by the crash have been deposited at Okene General Hospital.

In Osogbo, Osun State a motorcyclist and a fashion designer identified as Shade were on Friday evening killed in a fatal road accident in Osogbo, Osun State capital.

The lady who is in her early 30s was a passenger on a commercial motorcycle when a Toyota RAV 4 heading towards Olaiya hit the commercial motorcycle while trying to cross through the road median.

The incident occurred around 8pm on Friday along Osogbo-Gbongan road, according to an eye witness the lady and the commercial motorcyclist died on the spot.

Wale Adisa, who resides around GOF area, said the motorcyclist who was riding from Olaiya end was trying to maneuver the median with a view to cross to the other side instead of going to turn at the DSS junction.

“The oncoming RAV4 was at high speed and hit the motorcyclists and his female passenger which led to their death on the spot as a result of the impact. The driver of the vehicle and the passengers also sustained injuries”, he said

Confirming the incident, Osun State Police command spokesperson, SP Yemisi Opalola said the Toyota vehicle registered with Abuja KUJ 708 UH was driven by one Dauda Tewogbade while the identity of the deceased commercial motorcyclist is yet to be ascertained.

According to her, the incident occurred around Mobil filling station along Ogo-Oluwa on Osogbo-Gbongan road.

She said the bodies of the lady and the cyclist have been deposited at the Uniosun teaching hospital morgue while those that sustained injuries were also taken to the hospital for treatment.

Also four persons were killed on Friday during a fuel tanker explosion that occurred along Eleme section of the East-West Road in Rivers state at about 7:30 p.m.

In Ogun state, one person was confirmed dead, while five vehicles were completely burnt on Saturday, when a truck carrying Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) exploded in Abeokuta, the Ogun State capital. The explosion, which occurred around the Ita-Oshin area of the metropolis, also shook the foundations of several residential buildings, leaving many of them with shattered louvres and glass doors with adex roofing becoming debris.

Head of the Federal Fire Service (FFS) team, Deputy Superintendent of Fire Service (DSF), Adeoye Adegoke, said that the only victim of the explosion was the motor boy of the gas-laden truck, whose body was shattered on the road and was packed by officials of the Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) into one of their body bags.

Dark weekend: 26 killed in multiple road crash

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