FRSC officer, 24 others killed in two road accidents in Ogun

• Two fatal roadworthy crashes connected Saturday successful Ogun State claimed 25 lives, including an FRSC official, and near 8 others injured
• The archetypal mishap occurred connected the Lagos-Ibadan expressway owed to speeding, involving a truck, a tanker, and a commercialized bus
• A 2nd clang astatine Mosimi during rescue operations progressive 7 vehicles and was caused by brake failure, tragically sidesplitting a rescue idiosyncratic and others

A devastating bid of accidents on large highways successful Ogun State connected Saturday near astatine slightest 25 radical dormant and 8 others injured, including a Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) official.

The crashes, which occurred astatine abstracted locations, person raised caller concerns astir roadworthy information and operator recklessness.

Officials person reiterated the value of abiding by roadworthy regulations aft the tragic incidental successful Ogun. Image: FRSC/FB
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Overspeeding crashes motortruck into a tanker

The archetypal incidental happened astir 7 a.m. adjacent the NIPCO filling presumption connected the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway.

A Mack motortruck (SEY 363 YY) traveling astatine precocious velocity mislaid power and collided with a tanker (T2900LA) and a commercialized autobus (LSD 180 YA). The interaction of the clang killed 7 people—six men and 1 woman—while 4 others sustained injuries.

Florence Okpe, spokesperson for the Ogun State FRSC, confirmed the incidental successful a statement. She noted that 15 radical were progressive successful the accident, with the injured taken to Divine Touch Hospital and Glory Center Hospital successful Ibafo.

The bodies of the deceased were moved to Idera Morgue successful Sagamu.

Brake nonaccomplishment causes different accident

Later that aforesaid day, a second, much deadly collision occurred astir 4 p.m. on the Sagamu-Ikorodu Road adjacent Mosimi. FRSC officials were already on-site clearing an earlier mishap erstwhile a conveyance with brake nonaccomplishment plowed into the rescue team.

Bodies of the deceased person been deposited astatine the nearest accessible morgue successful Ogun state.
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The clang progressive 7 vehicles and resulted successful 18 fatalities, including an FRSC officer. Four others were injured and rushed to Dasochris Hospital successful Gbaga, portion the deceased were deposited astatine Olabisi Onabanjo University Teaching Hospital (OOUTH).

Okpe provided further details, stating:

“This happened erstwhile conveyance 1 and 2 crashed, and the FRSC rescue squad were carrying retired the rescue cognition erstwhile different conveyance ran into them arsenic a effect of brake nonaccomplishment and killed an FRSC staff.”

Akinwumi Fasakin, Ogun State FRSC Sector Commander, expressed heavy sorrow implicit the incidents, attributing them to excessive speeding and mechanical failures. He urged drivers to adhere to velocity limits and stay vigilant, particularly successful high-traffic zones.

Natasha condoles with families of Lokoja clang victims

In a akin report, Senator Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan has expressed heavy sorrow implicit the tragic deaths of students successful a fatal roadworthy mishap successful Lokoja, Kogi State.

The legislator extended her heartfelt condolences to the grieving families, describing the nonaccomplishment arsenic an unimaginable tragedy.

She stated:

"My bosom goes retired to you successful this darkest of moments. No words tin afloat convey the symptom of losing a loved one. I stock successful your sorrow and commune that God grants you the spot to carnivore this irreparable loss."

The fatal crash, which occurred connected Monday afternoon, progressive an articulated motortruck that mislaid power and rammed into a schoolhouse shuttle autobus transporting students to the Federal University Lokoja's imperishable tract successful Felele.

The interaction claimed aggregate lives, leaving the world assemblage successful heavy mourning.

Eyewitnesses reported that the truck, loaded with wood and containers of thenar oil, experienced brake nonaccomplishment earlier colliding with the bus.

Kwara residents request velocity bumps aft fatal crash

Earlier, Legit.ng reported that the residents and travellers had renewed their calls for urgent information measures successful the Oko Olowo country of the Ilorin-Jebba Expressway, Kwara state pursuing yet different fatal mishap that claimed 2 lives.

According to eyewitnesses, the accident, which occurred connected Thursday, progressive a motorcycle popularly known arsenic "Ladies Bike" and a petrol tanker.

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