Now fewer than three persons on
Saturday reportedly lost their lives in a motor accident by Obayator
village, along the Benin-Warri highway in Ikpoba Okha Local Government
Area of Edo State.
It was learnt that the accident occurred at about 8.30am when a
Toyota Hiace bus with number plate, Lagos XL 617 AGL, lost control and
rammed into a Toyota Sienna bus marked, Delta BUR 598 AA, from the rear,
killing three of the passengers while some others sustained injuries.
Both vehicles were travelling toward Benin City from Warri.
However, the impact of the collision was said to have caused the vehicles to skid off the road.
An eyewitness, who noted that the Hiace bus had obituary posters of a
woman, said the vehicle was apparently headed for Ekpoma, the
administrative headquarters of Esan West Local Government Area of the
state for a funeral.
State Public Relations Officer of the Federal Road Safety Corps,
George Otoabiokhai, told our correspondent on the telephone that the
remains of the deceased had already been evacuated before they arrived
at the scene.
“Our response time is 15 minutes or less. Maybe they (deceased) had
already been evacuated before the FRSC was called into action,”
Otoabiokhai said.
However, those injured were reportedly taken to the Stella Obasanjo Hospital in Benin.
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