No fewer than nine persons sustained varying degrees of injuries in an accident that involved two vehicles in the Adedero area of the Abeokuta-Sagamu Expressway on Wednesday.
PUNCH Metro gathered that the accident occurred when a DAF tipper collided with a Toyota Coaster bus.
Our correspondent who visited the scene of the accident observed that the tipper with number plate AAB368XB collided with the side of the Toyota Coaster bus with number plate AKD 979YA, leaving nine persons injured.
An eyewitness identified simply as Awako said, “I was driving behind and what I observed was that the tipper driver was not concentrating maybe because he had slept off which led to losing control. The tipper jumped the culvert and collided with the Coaster bus on the other side.”
The Public Relations Officer of the Federal Road Safety Corps, Ogun State Sector Command, Florence Okpe, confirmed the accident to our correspondent when contacted.
She noted that 18 persons, including eight males and 10 females, were involved in the accident while nine persons, including three males and six females, sustained a high degree of injuries.
“I can confirm the accident. It happened along the Adedero area of the Abeokuta-Sagamu Expressway around 7am on Wednesday. A total of 18 passengers were involved. Nine people were injured. The vehicles involved are one DAF Tipper vehicle with number plate AAB368XB and one Toyota Coaster bus with number plate AKD 979YA.
“The cause of the accident is speeding,” Okpe said.
SOURCE: PUNCH
