5 children, others, dead in Kwara road accident | Read Details
19 persons, comprising of 5 children and 14 adults, have lost their lives as a result of a collision between two vehicles, at Kanbi village on the Olooru-New Jebba Road in Kwara State.
The accident happened on Thursday when a commercial bus and a truck collided as a result of speeding and improper overtaking.
A statement signed by the Federal Road Safety Corp spokesperson on Friday, Olusegun Ogungbemide, on Friday, read in part;
“Preliminary investigation revealed that the crash which occurred as a result of excessive speed and wrongful overtaking involved 2 vehicles; a blue Iveco trailer with no trace of registration and a white Toyota Hiace bus with registration number LSD363YE.
“A total of 25 people were involved, comprising of 13 male adults, 5 female adults, 2 female children and 5 male children. From this number, 5 people were injured (3 male adults and 2 female adults), and 19 victims killed (11 male adults, 3 female adults, 3 male children, and 2 female children.”
He explained that the injured victims had been taken to Orisun Ayo Hospital. According to him, a corpse was deposited at the morgue of the same hospital while the remaining 18 bodies were claimed by the families of the deceased persons.
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