At least eighteen people on the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway’s Longbridge segment narrowly avoided death on Wednesday in a car accident.
According to reports, the accident occurred while the white, eighteen-seater Mazda bus with the registration number FKJ285Y was transporting passengers from Maryland out of Lagos State.
The bus’s driver declined to talk to our reporter, but one of the survivors, Bolu, claimed that the propeller suddenly loosened as the car was moving and caused a somersault. Although there were no confirmed casualties, the victims’ hands and legs were bruised.
The mother of a six-month-old baby added, “If not for God and the driver, I would have been a dead person by now. We thank God and the driver for saving out.”
Another passenger named Abubakar, who was travelling to Kebbi state but planned to alight in Ibadan, complained that the money on him could no longer convey him to his destination in Kebbi State, weeping that he was the saddest on the bus.
He said, “I am the saddest person on this bus, the money with me can’t take me to Kebbi anymore. The driver collected N2,600 from us before leaving the park and he was not ready to refund us or call for backup in the park to come and carry his stranded passengers.”
As of the time of filing this report, security personnel including the police and some members of the Federal Road Safety Corps attached to the axis, were seen coordinating vehicular movement at the scene of the accident.
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