- The mishap which happened on Monday at about 3:30 pm around RCC yard involved a white Toyota Hiace bus.
In Ogun State, at least eighteen people have been burnt to death in fatal road accident along Ijebu-Ode/Benin expressway.
The mishap, which happened on Monday at about 3:30 pm around RCC yard, involved a white Toyota Hiace bus.
The accident which saw the victims burn to death also left the driver critically injured.
It was gathered that the bus went up in flame after it ran into some failed section of the road with the keg of petrol inside the bus falling and pouring on the exhaust pipe of the vehicle.
Spokesperson of Traffic Compliance and Enforcement Agency (TRACE), Babatunde Akinbiyi, confirmed the incident in a statement on Tuesday in Abeokuta, Ogun State capital.
Akinbiyi said, “the cause of the crash according to eye witness account which was corroborated by the driver was that, there was keg full of PMS inside the bus which fell on its side when the vehicle got to failed portion of the road.
“The PMS poured on the floor of the bus and later dropped on the exhaust pipe and caused the vehicle to catch fire on transit”.
Akinbiyi disclosed that the injured driver had been taken to Rona Hospital for medical care while the corpses of the dead were deposited at the State Hospital, Ijebu Ode.
While commiserating with families of the accident victims, Akinbiyi urged drivers to desist from carrying petrol in their vehicles due to the attendant risk involved.
Similarly, a Mazda bus with registration No JGB 330 ZT was equally said to have also crashed around Ita Osu at about 6:45 pm on Monday along Abeokuta-Siun-Sagamu expressway leaving seven people injured.
The accident was blamed on excessive speeding and tyre burst after which the vehicle somersaulted.
The injured were reportedly rescued at State Hospital, Ijaye Abeokuta