2 die, 6 injured as tanker tries to avoid vehicle driving against traffic

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Sango-Ota(Ogun) – The Ogun Traffic Compliance and Enforcement Corps (TRACE) said two persons died while six others sustained various degrees of injury in an accident involving four vehicles near Kara Bridge on the Lagos/Ibadan Expressway on Saturday.

2 die, 6 injured as tanker tries to avoid vehicle driving against traffic

Mr Akinbiyi Babatunde, Public Relations Officer (PRO) of TRACE, who confirmed this in Ota, Ogun, said that the incident happened at about 6.25am.

He explained that the four vehicles involved in the accident were a Mack tanker with registration number, APP-49 XS, a BMW saloon with registration number EPE-864 CN, a Mitsubishi Canter bus with registration number KRD-935 XD, and a Toyota Carina with registration number GGE-883 AT.

Babatunde said that the tanker was trying to avoid a vehicle that drove against the traffic when it rammed into three other vehicles thereby resulting in the death of two persons while six other sustained injuries out of the nine people involved in the accident.

“The corpses of the two victims have…



Source: Vanguard Newspaper