Road Crash In Kwara State Claims Ten Lives, Others Injured
Ten persons were feared dead following a fatal multiple auto crash along Bode Saadu-Jebba highway in Moro Local Government Area of Kwara State on Friday.
Seventeen people were involved in the multiple auto crash.
Seven males, one female, and two female children reportedly died in the incident, which occurred at Ilupupa village.
The vehicles involved in the crash were “a Green coloured private Volkswagen Sharan car registered AKD 733FX, a private gold-coloured car registered GWA 22DD, driven by one Oladokun Waheed and a white coloured commercial vehicle registered DTS 139XA owned by Darmarna Petroleum Ltd.”
The dead were deposited at the University of Ilorin Teaching Hospital mortuary, Ilorin, while the injured were taken to Shalom Hospital, Bode Saadu.
The police from Jebba Divisional Police Station took custody of the vehicles involved in the auto crash.
According to Kwara State Sector Commander, Federal Road Safety Corps, Frederick Ogidan, three vehicles were involved in the fatal accident.
The Sector Commander also revealed that about N60,750 cash was recovered at the scene of the crash, which he attributed to wrongful overtaking and over speeding.
He advised motorists to be cautious of the way they speed and overtake, informing that Road Safety Corps will commence another round of enforcement on speed violations and overloading from Monday, this week.
“The safety corps cannot tolerate a situation where 10 lives are lost in a single auto crash,” he cautioned.
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