One dies, three injured in Lagos-Ibadan Expressway crash

• The accident scene. Photo: TRACE

A male passenger has died while three others were injured when a Mazda bus collided with a truck at the Danco section of the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway, inward Lagos, Ogun State.

The crash, which occurred on Monday night, involved a blue Mazda bus with registration number AAA 989 YA and an unidentified truck.

The spokesperson for the Ogun State Traffic Compliance and Enforcement Agency, Babatunde Akinbiyi, disclosed this in a traffic update on Tuesday.

Akinbiyi noted that eight people, comprising four men and four women, were in the bus when the accident occurred.

He added that three passengers, two women and a man, sustained injuries, while a yet-to-be-identified male passenger died.

Giving an account of how the crash happened, Akinbiyi noted that an eyewitness blamed the incident on the truck driver, who allegedly reversed onto the expressway.

He stated, “According to an eyewitness, the crash was caused by an unidentified truck which reversed onto the expressway and was hit at the rear by the speeding bus. The truck sped off.

“Eight people comprising four males and four females were involved; one male adult died while three persons, including two females and one male, were injured.”

According to him, the injured victims were taken to a nearby hospital, while the body of the deceased was deposited at the morgue of the Olabisi Onabanjo University Teaching Hospital.

He added, “The wounded passengers were rushed to a nearby hospital, the presumed dead body was deposited at the OOUTH morgue, and the accident vehicle had been evacuated off the road.

Akinbiyi added that officers of TRACE and the Federal Road Safety Corps were deployed to the scene to manage the situation and evacuate the vehicles.

He added that the crash initially affected traffic on the Lagos-bound section of the expressway but that normal movement was restored after the vehicles were removed.

“Following the evacuation of the affected vehicles, the axis now enjoys free flow of traffic,” he said.