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Eight die, five injured in Ondo road accident


 

Eight people lost their lives on Tuesday in Ondo State following a fatal accident that occurred at Bagbe axis of Ondo West Local Government Area of the state

Five people also sustained varying degrees of injuries in the fatal auto crash.

The accident was said to have involved an 18-passenger Toyota Hiace bus with registration number ARC 616 XA and a truck which had no registration number.

According to sources, the accident occurred while the passenger bus was trying to overtake another vehicle and collided with the truck coming from the other end of the road.

Following the accident, there was heavy traffic snarl for several hours, which took the intervention of the men of the Ondo Sector Command of the Federal Road Safety Corps, FRSC, and the policemen from tbe area to ease the logjam on the busy road.

Speaking on the condition of anonymity, an official of the FRSC, who was part of the evacuation team at the accident scene, maintained that the accident occurred as a result of speed limit violation as well as dangerous overtaking on the part of the vehicles.

According to the FRSC operative, the bodies of those who died in the crash had been deposited at the morgue while those who sustained injuries were taken to Trauma Center, Ondo town for treatment.

When contacted, the spokesperson of the police command in the state, Funmilayo Odunlami, who confirmed the incident, also attributed the accident to dangerous overtaking.

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