- The auto crash, which involved a Wemer passenger bus and a truck happened along the Lapai-Agaie road on Saturday.
No fewer than twelve people, four women and eight men, have lost their lives in a fatal auto crash in Niger State.
The auto crash, which involved a Wemer passenger bus and a truck, happened along the Lapai-Agaie road on Saturday.
The crash resulted from a head-on collision between the passenger bus, carrying 15 people, and the trailer at Nami village.
According to Daily Trust, three of the four women who died in the mishap were from the same family.
Three other occupants, including two women and the driver, sustained varying degrees of injuries and were being treated at Lapai General Hospital.
The driver, Mohammed Baba, said he took off from Gwari Market Park in Minna, the Niger State capital, en route to Katcha, the headquarters of Katcha LGA.
He said the trailer driver attempted to overtake another vehicle, adding that his efforts to control the bus failed, resulting in the collision.
“I left the park at Gwari Market Park with 15 passengers this morning (Saturday). After we had passed Lapai, this trailer attempted to overtake another vehicle, and before I could control my vehicle, we had a head-on collision. And immediately, the trailer drivers left the scene. We didn’t see them again,” he stated.
The Niger State Sector Commander of the Federal Road Safety Corps, Kumar Tsukwam, confirmed the accident to our correspondent on the phone but said his men were still at the scene of the accident to gather accurate reports.
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