30 People Die In A Multiple New Year Road Accident In Ibadan
With just a few minutes to ring in the new year, 30 lives were
reportedly lost in a road accident on Monday night near Bola Ige
International market along new Ife-Ibadan expressway, Gbagi, Ibadan, Oyo
state capital.
According to reports, the victims were crushed to death by an
oncoming trailer from Iwo road axis which rammed into the commercial
buses by the entrance of the market. The Gbagi accident which occurred
around 11:45pm, led to heavy gridlock which saw vehicles enroute Ife
from Ibadan stranded for several hours.
Although, no eyewitness could say if the trailer suffered a brake
failure or if the affected buses were parked on the road, sources
confirmed that only two people initially survived the accident and many
people were taken to a nearby hospital while other passengers were said
to have died immediately.
A Toyota Camry and Nissan Micra cars were also said to have been
crushed by the trailer. Sources, however, hinted that many of the
victims included people going to churches for the cross-over service at
Iyana-Agbala and Egbeda Area of the capital city. Victims included a
pregnant woman, simply identified as Mrs. Funmilayo who was said to be
on her way to visit her In-laws; a driver of a bus identified as ‘Orobo
Baba Weather’; and many others that could not be identified as of the
time of filing this report.
Confirming the development, the state Police Public Relations Officer
(PPRO), Adekunle Ajisebutu, puts the casualty figure at eleven, while
another report obtained from the office of the Sector Commander of the
FRSC, Mrs Cecilia Alao, indicated that 12 people died as a result of the
incident and their corpses were deposited at the morgue of Oyo State
Specialist Hospital, Adeoyo. It noted that aside from nine who died
immediately at the scene, additional three persons died on Tuesday
morning out of the 10 injured victims who were conveyed to Toun
Specialist Hospital, Iwo road area for medical attention.
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