11 dead, 7 injured in Edo bus, truck head-on collision

By Usman Aliyu

No fewer than 11 people lost their lives, while seven others sustained injuries in a crash involving an 18-seater commercial bus travelling towards Lagos and a truck at Okhuahe community section of the Benin–Agbor Road in Edo.

The accident, which reportedly occurred on Saturday, according to eyewitnesses occurred when the bus driver attempted to overtake another vehicle and collided head-on with an oncoming truck.

This was also confirmed by Mr Cyril Mathew, the Edo Sector Commander of the Federal Road Safety Commission (FRSC).

Matthew confirmed that 11 people died instantly at the scene of the crash.

“The crash involved a truck and an 18-seater bus.

“The bus attempted to overtake another vehicle and in the process had a head-on collision with an oncoming vehicle,” Mathew said.

The FRSC boss added that seven other passengers sustained varying degrees of injuries.

“The corpses were evacuated to the morgue, while the injured victims were rushed to nearby hospitals for medical treatment,” the sector commander said.

Mathew cautioned motorists against dangerous driving habits, particularly wrongful overtaking, stressing that such actions continued to claim innocent lives on the nation’s highways.

(NAN)