One dead and three injured in a crash on the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway
By the AFREEQUE newsroom, based on Punch
A Mazda minibus rammed the back of a truck that was reversing on the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway at Danco, in Ogun State, on Monday evening. One passenger died and three others were injured, said Babatunde Akinbiyi, spokesman for the Ogun State traffic management agency, according to Punch.
One passenger died and three others were injured on Monday evening in a collision between a Mazda minibus and a truck, on the Danco section of the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway in Ogun State, in the direction of Lagos. The toll was given on Tuesday by Babatunde Akinbiyi, spokesman for the Ogun State Traffic Compliance and Enforcement Corps (TRACE).
Eight people, four men and four women, were on the bus. The injured are two women and a man; the victim, a man, has not been identified. According to a witness cited by Akinbiyi, the truck reportedly reversed on the expressway and was hit from behind by the bus, which was travelling at high speed, and then reportedly fled.
The injured were taken to a nearby hospital and the body was taken to the morgue of Olabisi Onabanjo University Teaching Hospital. TRACE officials and the Federal Road Safety Corps intervened to clear the vehicles. Traffic, initially disrupted towards Lagos, has resumed normally.
This is the latest fatal accident reported on the route after a collision on 3 November.
