Auto crash claims ten lives in Kwara

On Friday, a fatal multi-vehicle collision on the Bode Saadu-Jebba route in the Moro Local Government of Kwara State claimed the lives of ten people.

Seven males, one female, and two female children were killed in the incident, which happened at Ilupupa hamlet at around 06.30 hours and involved seventeen people.

According to Frederick Ade Ogidan, the state’s sector commander for the Federal Road Safety Corps, three vehicles were involved in the fatal collision that also injured three other people.

He disclosed that about N60,750 in cash was recovered at the scene of the crash, blamed on wrongful overtaking and overspeeding.

The vehicles involved in the crash were a Green coloured private Volkswagen Sharan car registered AKD 733FX, a private gold-coloured car registered GWA 22DD, driven by one Oladokun Waheed and a white coloured commercial vehicle registered DTS 139XA owned by Darmarna Petroleum Ltd.

The dead were deposited at the University of Ilorin Teaching Hospital mortuary, Ilorin, while the injured were taken to Shalom Hospital, Bode Saadu.

The police from Jebba Divisional Police Station took custody of the vehicles involved in the auto crash.

The sector commander attributed the cause of the auto crash to wrongful overtaking and speed violations.

While advising motorists to be cautious of the way they speed and overtake, he said the safety corps will commence another round of enforcement on speed violations and overloading from Monday next week.

“The safety corps cannot tolerate a situation where 10 lives are lost in a single auto crash,” he added.

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