8 killed in Osun auto crash

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(Nigeria) No fewer than eight passengers,  including a pregnant woman,  reportedly died in a ghastly auto crash on Monday on  the Gbongan-Ibadan expressway, Ogun State, reports News Agency of  Nigeria.
It was gathered that  the victims were travelling in a bus from Ede to Owode in Osun at 6.40 a.m.  when the accident happened.
An eye-witness told NAN that the affected bus passengers were traders from  a nearby market who had  boarded the ill-fated vehicle  for the  trip.
The  eyewitness  said that a light blue Golf car marked AG 19 EDE coming from Ede caused the accident when it somersaulted suddenly on  high speed.
It was further learnt that the  car  crashed  into two other vehicles—an ash coloured  KIA marked KUJ 74 AJ and a white Toyota Hiace also marked XR 930 ABC.
The  multiple accident,  which resulted,  led to the death of  eight persons while a few others were rushed to the hospital for medical attention.
The  accident spot was said to have been  thronged  by sympathisers  while  officials of the Ambulance  Service  evacuated the corpses of victims.
The surge of  the crowd at the scene of the accident  caused a gridlock  with  commercial activities temporarily halted.
Mr Imoh Etuk, the state Sector Commander of the FRSC,  who confirmed the death toll  to NAN, lamented that the accident was due to violation of traffic rules.
Etuk said the corpses of the victims had since been deposited at the morgue of the Ladoke Akintola University of Technology Teaching Hospital, (LAUTECH-TH, in  Osogbo.
He said officials of the FRSC and the state Ambulance Service (O’ Ambulance) as well as the police were involved in the rescue  operation.
Etuk, who  said  the victims were  confirmed dead at the hospital,  warned motorists to desist from over-speeding.
The identities of  the victims were yet to be ascertained at press time.
The commission, he said, was  making the efforts through the National Union of Road Transport Workers, to identify victims.

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