No fewer than 11 persons were burnt to death while many were injured on
Thursday in a road crash that occurred on the Ile-Ife-Ondo road at Oke
Igbo town in Ile Olujo/Oke Igbo Local Government Area of Ondo State.
According to an eyewitness, the accident which happened at about 7.45pm,
was caused by the over speeding of one of the drivers of the affected
vehicles.
The eyewitness narrated that the driver of a Toyota Camry lost control
of the vehicle after a burst tyre while on a very high speed.
He was said to have swerved to the other side of the road and collided
with an 18-passenger commercial bus coming from the opposite direction.
The two vehicles were said to have burst into flame on impact with 11 of
the occupants of both vehicles burning beyond recognition while
others, including a toddler, sustained varying degrees of injuries.
It was gathered that the victims of the accident were rushed to the
Trauma hospital in Ondo town where they were receiving medical treatment
while the corpses of the victims had been deposited at the morgue of
the General Hospital, Ondo town.
However, efforts to reach the Head of Operation of the Federal Road
Safety Commission , Mr Adewumi Malomo, on the telephone was unsuccessful
as he did not pick calls made to his set as of the time of filing this
report.
The State Police Public Relations Officer, Mr Wole Ogodo, said he did
not have any information on the accident because it did not happen in
the state command’s jurisdiction.
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