The
Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC), Ogun command, said it had returned over
65,000 Euros recovered from an accident scene to the victims.
Mr Clement Oladele, the Sector Commander, disclosed
this in a statement by the command’s Public Education Officer, Mrs Florence
Okpe, in Abeokuta on Friday.
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that eight
persons died on Tuesday in an accident involving a bus and a truck on
Lagos-Ibadan expressway.
NAN gathered that the passengers in the bus came in
from Spain and had chartered the bus to take them to Benin City.
Oladele explained that it was observed that some of
the passengers were traveling with cash, including foreign currencies
He stated that the FRSC rescue team also recovered
80 pounds, 238 Euro cents, N84,800, 32 traveling bags comprising 16 large
traveling bags, seven extra large traveling bags and nine large “Ghana must Go”
bags.
“In line with the rule of the World Health
Organisation , a hospital follow up of the victims of the fatal crash was done
by the FRSC to Olabisi Onabanjo University Teaching Hospital (OOUTH), Sagamu.
“The crash occurred on Tuesday and it involved a
white Toyota Hiace bus, belonging to a transport company – Iyare Motors, with registration
number BEN 313 YZ and a Mack truck with registration number MUS 730 XN, ” he
said.
The FRSC boss noted that a team of FRSC accident
investigators conducted a preliminary investigation of the crash and observed
that the driver of the commercial bus went to Muritala Mohammed International
Airport, Lagos to pick some passengers (with their luggage).
“While traveling along the Lagos /Ibadan expressway,
before Sagamu
Interchange, opposite Wictech Roofing and Pipes, due to excessive speed, in an attempt to overtake a truck ahead of it, the driver lost control and rammed into the truck.
Interchange, opposite Wictech Roofing and Pipes, due to excessive speed, in an attempt to overtake a truck ahead of it, the driver lost control and rammed into the truck.
“There was no evidence of a speed limiter installed
in the commercial bus.
“There was also no evidence of a passenger manifest
to indicate the identities of the passengers and their Next of Kin to be
contacted in case of an emergency.
“The suspected causes of the crash are overloading
(goods) and excessive speed leading to loss of control.
“There was no evidence that the passengers in the
bus activated their seat belts as at the time of the crash which compelled the
passengers to shift and collide with the luggage inside the vehicle.
“This collision was responsible for the injuries and
deaths of some of the passengers, ” he said.
The sector commander explained that FRSC had
commenced legal actions against Iyare Motors for failing to provide a Passenger
Manifest, failure to install a speed limiter and overloading the vehicle with
excessive luggage.
He admonished commercial fleet operators to affix
speed limiters in their vehicles, provide passenger manifest for every trip and
ensure their drivers complied with traffic regulations.
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