3 Die, 8 Injured In Ekiti Auto Crash

No fewer than three persons were killed, while eight others sustained varying degrees of injuries in an auto-crash which occurred on Thursday night at Akonosan , a suburb of Ado-Ekiti, the Ekiti State capital.Our correspondent learnt that a DAF truck and an eighteen setter Toyota Hiace bus had a head on collision on the road.Confirming the accident, the state Sector Commander of the Federal Road Safety Corps, (FRSC) Mr Ismail Kugu said two vehicles were involved in the fatal accident.Kugu said, a road crash occurred around 6:30p.m while it was raining, though we got the information late due to bad network caused by the heavy downpour.Before our arrival at the scene of the accident, a state ambulance Service had picked some injured victims, but we were able to rescue others, he said.Two vehicles were involved, a DAF truck with Lagos registration number, EPE 73XU and an eighteen seater Toyota Hiace bus with Ekiti number, EFY 30XA.The total numbers of people involved were 18 including those in the truck, consisting of 12 male adults and six female adults.As of this morning, three people, two men and a lady had died, while eight were seriously injured, he said.He said the accident occurred due to break failure which made the truck driver to lose control of the truck.The FRSC boss disclosed that those that lost their lives and others that were injured in the accident have been taken to Ekiti State Teaching Hospital (EKSUTH) the state capital.The sector commander said that the road audit of the road had beendone and forwarded to the FRSC headquarters for possible action.We have done the road audit that is the x-ray of the road to serve ascaution for motorists and enable them to know the terrain of the road.Aside our headquarters, we also send copies to both the Federal andState Ministries of Works for urgent action as the stretch of the roadis becoming a serious death trap,he added.We are currently engaging the state government on how we can divertthe road from Igede-Ekiti to reduce the crash on the road as well.
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