By Our Reporter
One passenger has died while three others sustained injuries after a Mazda bus collided with a truck at the Danco section of the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway, inward Lagos, Ogun State.
The accident occurred on Monday night and involved a blue Mazda bus with registration number AAA 989 YA and an unidentified truck.
The spokesperson for the Ogun State Traffic Compliance and Enforcement Agency (TRACE), Babatunde Akinbiyi, confirmed the incident in a traffic update on Tuesday.
According to Akinbiyi, eight persons, comprising four men and four women, were travelling in the bus when the crash occurred.
He disclosed that three passengers, including two women and a man, sustained injuries, while an unidentified male passenger died.
Providing details of the incident, Akinbiyi said an eyewitness attributed the crash to the truck driver, who allegedly reversed onto the expressway and was subsequently hit by the speeding Mazda bus.
He said the truck driver fled the scene after the collision.
“According to an eyewitness, the crash was caused by an unidentified truck which reversed onto the expressway and was hit at the rear by the speeding bus. The truck sped off,” Akinbiyi stated.
He added that the injured passengers were immediately taken to a nearby hospital for treatment, while the body of the deceased was deposited at the morgue of the Olabisi Onabanjo University Teaching Hospital (OOUTH).
Officers of TRACE and the Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) were deployed to the scene to manage traffic, evacuate the vehicles and restore normal movement.
Akinbiyi said the accident initially disrupted traffic on the Lagos-bound section of the expressway but normal vehicular movement resumed after the affected vehicles were cleared from the road.
He confirmed that the road had been cleared and traffic was flowing freely along the affected stretch.