The Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC), the Ogun sector command, has reported that eighteen people, including a command officer, lost their lives in a multiple accident on the Ikorodu-Sagamu road.
The accident, which occurred around 4 pm on Saturday, involved five vehicles and two motorcycles.
The vehicles involved were: a Toyota Hiace bus with the AGL752YC registration number, a DAF truck with registration number T14007LA, a Honda car with the registration number HT680, another DAF truck without registration number, a registration number with STF10204 registration number, a motorcycle number with the AGG448Q registration and at low bike with the PKA214WS registration.
This was contained in a statement signed by the spokesman for the command, Florence Okpe, and was available to Daily Post on Saturday.
According to the statement, the Mosimi unit command officer was killed during the rescue operation when the brake of another vehicle failed and met them.
She said: “The FRSC MOSIMI unit carried out a rescue operation on the Ikorodu-Sagamu road in an accident that occurred on Saturday, April 5 at 4:00 p.m.
“A total of 22 people participated in the multiple shock (14 men, 6 women and 1 son). Four people were injured and 18 people died, including one of the rescue officers who turned out to be a FRSC staff.
“This happened when the vehicles one and two crashed, and the FRSC rescue team was carrying out the rescue operation when another vehicle met them due to the brake failure, killing FRSC staff.”
Okpe said the injured victims were taken to the Dasochris Gbaga hospital, while the deceased were deposited in Oouth.
Expressing pain on the imprudence of the drivers and the number of accidents recorded that day, the commander of the Fasakin Akinwumi sector advised motorists to lead within the stipulated speed limit and observe the road signals.
Daily Post reports that in the early hours of the same day, no less than seven people lost their lives in an accident along the Lagos-Ibadan highway.
The clash, which was attributed to excessive speed and loss of control, involved a gas truck, an oil company and a yellow bus.