Yesterday Thursday July 8 can be described as a bloody one in Nigeria as it lost some 22 people in three road crashes.
In the morning of the fateful day, five persons died in a crash that occurred on Lagos-Ibadan Expressway, around the Christopher University.
The same day, a tanker crushed some pupils in Enugu, with reports saying the number ranged between nine and 15.
Also, the Ogun State Command of the Federal Road Safety Corps said five people were killed in an accident that involved a car and a stationary truck around Honda Area on Ota-Idiroko Road.
While the first crash was said to have been caused by wrong overtaking, with a passenger bus and a track said to be involved.
In Enugu, a tanker had ran into pupils of an Army children school who were returning home.
Concerning the Idi-Iroko accident, Mr Ahmed Umar, the State Sector Commander of FRSC, who confirmed the accident to the News Agency of Nigeria on Friday in Ota, said that two other people sustained injuries.
Umar said that the accident, which involved a Toyota Camry Car with registration number APP 583G and a truck which had no plate number, happened at about 11.45 pm due to alleged speeding and dangerous driving on the part of the driver of the car.
The sector commander said that the car lost control and rammed into the stationary truck and this led to the death of five people, three male and two female.
“The corpses have been deposited at the morgue of Ota General Hospital while the survivors are receiving treatment at Cranft Hospital, Ota, he said.
Umar described the crash as avoidable and advised motorists to avoid speeding and dangerous driving and to obey traffic regulations to prevent unnecessary loss of lives.
He commiserated with the families of the dead and prayed to God to grant them the fortitude to bear the irreplaceable losses.
The sector commander called on them to contact the FRSC Command in Ota for details of the crash and to reclaim the property of the victims recovered from the accident scene. (NAN)
