18 people were burnt to death in an auto crash at the Benin-Lagos expressway, yesterday.
A Toyota Hiace bus and a truck loaded with gravel were involved in a
head-on collusion, killing 18 passengers along the Benin-Lagos express
road. The incident which occurred near Okada, Ovia North-East Local
Government Area of Edo State, led to a serious gridlock as passengers
and drivers made frantic effort to save the life of the victims. Confirming the accident, Edo State Sector Commander of Federal Road
Safety Commission, FRSC, Mr. Kenneth Nwaegbe, said 18 persons were
roasted alive, while two other children survived the accident. Among the dead were said to be 15 adults and two kids. The driver of
the truck also died in the accident, according to a source. The FRSC sector commander said the commercial bus belonging to Peace
Mass Transit left Onitsha in Anambra State for Lagos via Benin when an
oncoming truck had a head-on collision on a side of the road under
construction. “What happened was that the Mark truck was carrying gravel and was
coming from Ore to Benin when one of its tyres burst and it lost
control. “The Toyota bus was going from Benin to Lagos when the two collided.
The dead were removed from the wreckage with axes through the assistance
of a team of rescue operation. “The team was made up of officials of FRSC from the Tollgate Unit
Command, policemen drafted from Okada town and sympathisers some of who
were passengers travelling either from Lagos to the Eastern part of the
country or those going to Lagos and other parts of the Western part,”
Nwaegbe said.
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