Four road users met with untimely death early Saturday morning as a pick up van in which they were travelling plunged into the Majidun River, along Ikorodu Expressway in Lagos.
The loss of lives, which happened around 5.20 a.m., was said to have defied all attempts by local divers, Naval officers, men of the National Emergency Management Authority (NEMA), policemen and officials of Fire Service and those of the Lagos State Traffic Management Authority (LASTMA) to recover victims’ bodies as of the time of filing this report.
The bodies of the four missing occupants of the Toyota Hilux Van , with the Registration No KSF 918 AU were as at Saturday afternoon yet to be recovered.
The van was said to belong to Lagos Golf Club and one of the occupants of the vehicle was identified as Kolawole Ahmed , the manager of the vehicle , who reportedly drove the vehicle.
Sunday Tribune gathered that the club manager was early Saturday going towards Ikorodu , after he might have closed from work after Friday/Saturday activities at the club.
Spokesperson of the National Emergency Management, South-West, Ibraheem Farinloye, while speaking with Sunday Tribune, stated that the agency was to yet get the accurate number of the occupants of the vehicle
According to him, eyewitnesses, who were around during the time of the incident claimed that four persons were seen in the vehicle , while Ikoyi Golf Club insisted that there was only one person in the vehicle.
As at 2.30 a.m. on Saturday, nobody had been recovered but the combined team of rescue operators had been able to successfully recover the vehicle which conveyed the occupants.
Farinloye stated that the rescue operator would go on with the rescue operation but might have to listen to the suggestion by the local divers to leave the rescue operation till after 24 hours.
He stated that the local divers and naval officers advised that the rescue operation should be abandoned that the bodies would be found after 24 hours , if the victims had not eaten and after 36 hours if they had eaten.
An eyewitness, Mutiu Oyewole , while speaking with Sunday Tribune, stated that nobody knew what actually led to the incident.
4 die in Ondo-Ore auto accident
Four people also lost their lives in a road accident along Ondo-Ore road, while four others were injure.
4 die in Ondo-Ore auto accident
Four people also lost their lives in a road accident along Ondo-Ore road, while four others were injure.
According to information posted on the Facebook account of the Federal Road Safety Commission (FRSC) on Saturday, at about 8.30 p.m. on Friday, four persons lost their lives along Ondo – Ore road when a crash involving a black Volkswagen Golf 3 car, marked GKB 83 XA and a Man Diesel truck with registration number XP 179 AKD, occurred.
4 dead, 3 injured in Agbor auto crash
Four persons were feared dead while three others were injured in a vehicle accident along the Agbor-Abraka Road in Delta yesterday, the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports.
4 dead, 3 injured in Agbor auto crash
Four persons were feared dead while three others were injured in a vehicle accident along the Agbor-Abraka Road in Delta yesterday, the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports.
The incident reportedly occurred at about 6.30 a.m., involving a commercial bus with registration number KRD 862 XC and two articulated vehicles with registration numbers XC 306 AUC and XC 842 AUC.
The Assistant Area Commander of the Federal Road Safety Commission (FRSC), Issele Uku Unit, Mr Olusola Olusegun, confirmed the incident.
The assistant area commander said the two articulated vehicles collided while the bus rammed into them.
Olusegun said that two of the dead bodies had been recovered and deposited at the Obiaruku General Hospital while the three injured persons had been taken to the Agbor General Hospital.
He said that the two drivers of the articulated vehicles were trapped in their vehicles, adding that officials of the FRSC were trying to disentangle the trapped bodies.
Olusegun said that officials of the FRSC had been at the scene of the accident, trying to remove the wreckage of the vehicles to make way for traffic to flow on the road.
He appealed to motorists on the road to be patient with FRSC officials as they worked to clear the road.
On March 20, a similar accident occurred at Issele Uku on the Asaba-Benin highway, killing three persons.
Source: Tribune
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