Eight persons, five males and three females, have lost their lives in an accident on Tuesday morning when a Hummer bus conveying them rammed into a Mack truck. The accident occurred around 8:30am at the Wictech stretch of the Lagos – Ibadan expressway about two km away from Danco filling station.

The victims – all believed to be Edo State indigenes, who just flew into the country from Spain this morning, had chartered the bus marked BEN 313 YX on the fleet of Iyare Motors and were going to Benin City for an engagement, when the accident happened.

Operatives of the Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) and the Ogun State Traffic Compliance and Enforcement Corps(TRACE) were sighted evacuating victims, clearing obstructions and directing traffic.

The Public Relations Officer of TRACE, Babatunde Akinbiyi, who confirmed the accident to The Nation, said the driver of the speeding hummer bus ram into the rear of a truck marked MUS 730 XN in bids to overtake it.

Akinbiyi said seven of the victims died at the accident scene while one other died later. Their remains have been deposited at the morgue of the Olabisi Onabanjo University Teaching Hospital (OOUTH), Sagamu where two others rescued alive, were also receiving treatment.

Source; https://www.nationalhelm.co/2018/06/8-edo-indigenes-coming-from-spain-die-in-fatal-accident-photos.html

Oh my God! This is very very tragic. Some family heads, bread winner and probably only hope is gone. Just trying to feel the pains of their loved ones right now. All promises made to them when coming ended just like that.pathetic
#NoToDrinkDriving
# NoToOverSpeeding
#SayNoToRicketyVehicles

A wise German priest and scholar called Martin Luther once said

"Every man must do two things alone; he must do his own believing and his own dying."

I smell evil

sad

Just too tragic, only God can console their families now.
BTW Nigerian drivers need to stop neck breaking speeds on highways, over speeding is the leading cause of accident all over the world.

So sad.... the way some transport company drivers carry speed ehn, you'll think they have spare life at home..


Make God no let village people remember to open our case file oo.

Lord HV mercy

Village people fear them

Village people couldn't even let them get home before they strike.

More reasons why when people leave the shores of this country they never want to come back. Who do we blame for this now? After all the hustling!
From the position of the vehicle it looks like the driver slept off on the wheel.
God knows best.
RIP

So sad

God forbid this for any of us irrespective of tribe. Amen

RIP, there struggle has ended

OMG......may their souls and the soul of all the faithful departed through the mercy of God rest in peace!.... Amen

Hmm... Arrived from Spain safe but to edo its another news. Rip

Chai! This is so sad

Hj

RIP

Tragic

Over speeding, the driver probably did see the truck early . May their souls rip

Juju dey this world oh

Sad

This is just a result of over speeding... showing off senseless stupid driving skills... the way people drive this days on 3rd mainland bridge alone like demons are pursuing them and when u caution them they tell you "you don't have liver"... this is where it ends.

God please protect us

God hv mercy on us, Chai, see how human lives are gone, this deaths are getting too much, am just so scared