Careless trailer driver collides with passenger loaded truck, kill female passenger, injure others in Ogun
A yet to be identified female passenger has been killed by a hit-and-run driver on the Lenuwa Village corridor of the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway.
FUSION CHRONICLES NIGERIA NEWSPAPER gathered that the accident, which happened at approximately 6:17 p.m. on Wednesday, involved a fully loaded Toyota Hiace bus with the registration number BOJ716XF and an unidentified truck.
It was learnt that the passenger bus, was heading towards Ibadan from Lagos State, when it collided with the unidentified truck that had entered the expressway at high speed from a nearby trailer park without properly checking for oncoming vehicles.
The Ogun State Police Command disclosed to newsmen that the truck driver ran from the scene after the unidentified truck sped onto the motorway from the park.
The victims were hurriedly rushed to a nearby hospital, where a doctor on duty confirm one of the female passengers dead.
The command’s spokesperson, Omolola Odutola, newsmen that the deceased’s body had been taken to the mortuary, while the surviving victims were receiving treatment.
Odutola stated, “The passengers sustained severe injuries and were taken to Idera Private Hospital in Sagamu, where the doctor on duty pronounced one of the female passengers dead on arrival.
“The address of the deceased is not yet known. The body has been removed and placed in the hospital mortuary.”
PUNCH Metro reported that two occupants of a Mitsubishi Canter were killed in a crash along the Straight Gate area of the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway on Wednesday.
