
In the Ado-Odo/Ota Local Government Area of Ogun State, on Wednesday, a drunk truck driver struck a bus near the Castinjo/Ola bus stop by the Ota-Idiroko Expressway. The bus driver and his motor boy were instantly killed.
This revealed in a statement by Babatunde Akinbiyi, the acting spokesperson for the Traffic Compliance and Enforcement Agency, (TRACE).
A bus with number plate LND 224 GF and a MAN Diesel truck without a license plate were involved in the incident, which happened at approximately 6:48 in the morning.
Due to the truck’s collision, which impeded the normal flow of traffic, there was apparently a traffic jam for several hours following the incident.
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“According to an eyewitness account, the MAN Diesel truck with no number plate was driving inbound Idiroko from Ota when the driver, due to drunk driving and excessive speed, lost control and rammed into the bus driving in the opposite direction from Idiroko to Ota.
“The driver of the bus and the motor boy died on the spot due to the impact of the collision, while the drunk driver of the truck and its motor boy ran away.
“The accident vehicles (truck and bus) have been evacuated off the road to Onipanu Divisional Police Station, Ota, while the bodies of the dead have been deposited at Ifo General Hospital Morgue,” the statement partly read.