A drunk truck driver, on Wednesday, reportedly crashed right into a bus across the Castinjo/Ola bus cease alongside the Ota-Idiroko Expressway within the Ado-Odo/Ota Native Authorities Space of Ogun State, killing the bus driver and his motor boy on the spot.
The spokesman for the Site visitors Compliance and Enforcement Company, Babatunde Akinbiyi, disclosed this in a press release despatched to journalists.
Akinbiyi stated an eyewitness account claimed that the truck driver, who was reportedly drunk and was on high pace, misplaced management and rammed into the bus coming in direction of Ota.
The crash, which reportedly occurred round 6.48 am, concerned a MAN Diesel truck with no quantity plate and a bus with quantity plate LND 224 GF.
The accident was stated to have prompted a visitors snarl for some hours because the crashed truck obstructed the sleek stream of visitors.
The wreckage of the crash was, nonetheless, stated to have been cleared from the street and brought to Onipanu Divisional Police Station, whereas the useless have equally been deposited at Ifo Common Hospital.
The assertion partly learn, “In keeping with an eyewitness account, the MAN Diesel truck with no quantity plate was driving inbound Idiroko from Ota when the driving force, as a result of drunk driving and extreme pace, misplaced management and rammed into the bus driving in wrong way from Idiroko to Ota.
“The motive force of the bus and the motor boy died on the spot as a result of impression of the collision whereas the drunk driver of the truck and its motor boy ran away.
“The accident autos (truck and bus) have been evacuated off the street to Onipanu Divisional Police Station, Ota, whereas the our bodies of the useless have been deposited at Ifo Common Hospital Morgue.
“Whereas TRACE and the police commiserate with the households of the deceased, motorists are once more warned to desist from drunk driving and extreme pace given its attendant penalties.”
