Story from Kenneth AFOR, Lagos
At least five persons have reportedly died and four others sustained various degrees of injuries following an accident involving a truck and a passenger bus around Christopher University on the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway on Thursday.
Confirming the accident, Mr Olusola Ojuoro, the Mowe-Ibafo Divisional Commander of the Ogun State Traffic Compliance and Enforcement Corps (TRACE), said it occurred at about 9.15 am due to wrong overtaking.
According to him, nine persons including six males and three females were involved in the accident noting three females and two males lost their lives.
He said that corpses of the victims had been deposited at the Idera Hospital where the survivors were receiving treatment.
Ojuoro told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) the two vehicles involved in the accident had been evacuated with the help of TRACE personnel, Federal Road Safety Corps and other sister agencies.
He advised motorists to at all times exercise patience and desist from wrong overtaking, to avoid accidents and unnecessary loss of lives as normalcy has returned to the expressway.
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