Ten persons died in a road accident at Kilometre 27 of the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway.
The accident, which occurred on Tuesday, involved a Ford bus, registered as BDJ410YM, and an IVECO truck, belonging to Dangote Group. One person was injured in the accident.
It was learnt that the bus, en route Ibadan, was trying to overtake near a road diversion when it collided with the truck, bearing cement.
For nearly an hour, the victims were reportedly trapped under the truck.
The Route Commander and Public Education Officer of the Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) in Ogun State, Florence Okpe, said a construction firm, RCC, brought its crane and removed the mangled bus from the truck to evacuate the dead.
In a statement she signed on behalf of the State Sector Commander, Clement Oladele, the commander said the dead included seven men and three women.
She added that the lone survivor was taken to Ife-Plus Hospital at Ogunmakin and the bodies deposited at FOS morgue at Ipara-Remo.
According to her, the FRSC recovered N151,340, with 10 mobile phones and goods.
Okpe said: “A fatal crash occurred on January 9 at 2100 hours (9 p.m) immediately after the diversion made by RCC to enable repairs of weakened bridges around the segments of the expressway.
“A commercial bus in wrongful overtaking was travelling from Lagos and attempted to overtake vehicles travelling at the section of the road diversion and, in the process, collided head-on with a Dangote truck laden with cement and travelling in opposite direction – from Ibadan, and heading towards Lagos.
“This resulted in the passengers in the commercial bus trapped. It took the intervention of RCC crane requested by the FRSC Rescue team, to extricate the trapped passengers from the truck. A total of 10 of the passengers died from injuries sustained from the impact of the crash.
“They were made up of 07 male and 03 female Details of the two vehicles are a Ford bus with vehicle registration number BDJ410YM and an IVECO truck belonging to Dangote Company but with no vehicle number plate.
“Eleven adults were involved in the crash, comprising eight male adults and three female adults; one male adult was injured in the crash. The injured was taken to Ife-Plus Hospital, Ogunmakin, while the bodies were deposited at FOS at Ipara in Ogun State.
“Motorists are once again reminded to note an earlier traffic advisory issued by FRSC’s Ogun State Command on 16 December, 2017, over the diversion created around Sancrete up to Fidiwo Bridge by RCC to enable the repairs of the weakened bridges around the area, which are expected to be completed by end of this January.”