5 die in Osun auto crash

Tragedy struck in the early hours of Wednesday in Osun, when no fewer than five passengers lost their lives, while others sustained severe injuries during an auto crash, which occurred along Ife-Ibadan expressway.

Eyewitness informed Metro that the accident occurred when an articulated vehicle rammed into a passenger bus at Akinlalu junction and the bus in the process collided with two other buses.

The vehicles involved were Toyota Previa car marked Osun, FDY 53XA; Futon Truck, Lagos, EPE 852 XQ;  and Nissan truck, Lagos, KSF 530 XQ.

The Nissan articulated truck was conveying log of woods when it rammed into the commercial bus.

Metro gathered that three of the survivors in the accident were immediately rushed to the Obafemi Awolowo University Teaching Hospital Complex (OAUTHC), Ile-Ife, where they had been receiving treatment.

Confirming the death of five victims,  Ile-Ife Unit Commander of the Federal Road Safety Commission (FRSC), Alhassan Abu said that several others  sustained various degrees of injuries, stressing that “those that sustained serious injuries have been carried to OAUTHC for medical treatment. The body of the deceased have been deposited at the hospital’s mortuary.”

A FRSC official at the scene of the accident, Aderibigbe Odogiyan attributed the cause of the auto accident to deplorable road condition.

Odogiyan, who is the Head of Operation, Ife FRSC, said, “lack of good roads led the drivers to pass one way. What happened was that the dew that covered up the cloud did not allow the drivers to see clearly and instead for them to exercise patience, they did not. We have been warning drivers severally against facing one way on express roads but they won’t listen to advice.”