No fewer than two persons were killed while 19 others sustained injuries in a road accident along the Lokoja–Okene highway in Kogi State on Tuesday.
The Sector Commander of the Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) in Kogi State, Mr Tenimu Etuku, confirmed the incident in a statement issued in Lokoja. He said the crash, which involved a commercial bus, occurred at about 9:40 a.m.
According to Etuku, four of the injured passengers sustained varying degrees of injuries, including bruises and fractures, and were rushed to a nearby hospital for medical treatment.
He attributed the accident to excessive speeding, explaining that the bus had departed Kano on Monday evening en route to Auchi and Benin before the crash occurred.
“The FRSC personnel who carried out the rescue operation deposited the two corpses at the morgue of the Kogi Specialist Hospital in Lokoja,” Etuku said.
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The sector commander urged motorists to exercise caution on highways and adhere strictly to traffic rules and regulations, especially during the Yuletide season, to prevent avoidable loss of lives.
In a related development, some passengers were also reported dead in another road crash along the Isara-Remo axis of the Lagos–Ibadan Expressway in the early hours of Tuesday.
The Ogun State Traffic Compliance and Enforcement Agency (TRACE) said the accident occurred at about 3 a.m., adding that the bodies of two passengers of a Suzuki bus were discovered by TRACE operatives and police officers at about 7 a.m.