Many burnt to death in Lagos-Ibadan expressway accident

Many passengers of a commuter bus have reportedly been burnt to death in a multiple accident that occurred on Thursday night on the Ogun State section of the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway.

The crash, which occurred at 10.20pm on the Long Bridge axis of the Lagos-Ibadan highway in the Obafemi/Owode Local Government Area of Ogun state, involved a Toyota RAV 4, with registration number, LND 13 GS, a Toyota Camry marked GGE 369 GJ and a Mazda bus.

The burnt commercial bus was said to have made a wrongful overtaking before it hit a stationed faulty vehicle, the Toyota Rav 4, parked in the middle of the road.

“In the process, it lost control, somersaulted severally before it burst into flames,” the Ogun Traffic Compliance and Enforcement Corps (TRACE) spokesman, Babatunde Akinbiyi, said Friday morning.

He confirmed that many occupants of the bus were burnt beyond recognition.

He said TRACE operatives and other security agencies on the ground rescued two victims and took them to the Lagos State Accident and Emergency Centre and one other to the General Hospital at Gbagada.

TRACE Corps has sympathised with the family of the dead victims, warning drivers to “desist from speeding, wrongful overtaking and overbearing cum nonchalant attitudes that expose other road users to risk and danger.”