By; OLADELE ADEDAYO, Ado-Ekiti
A Road Traffic crash has reportedly claimed three lives on Thursday night at Akonosan area, near Ado-Ekiti, the Ekiti State capital, while eight others also sustained serious injuries.
Ismail Kugu, the Ekiti Sector Commander of the Federal Road Safety Corps,(FRSC), disclosed this while reacting to the accident that involved a DAF truck and an eighteen seater Toyota Hiace in his office on Friday.
According to him,”a Road Traffic 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.
”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 number of people involved are 18 including those in the truck, consisting of 12 male adults and 6 female adults.
”As at this morning, three people, two males and a female had died, while eight were seriously injured.”
The sector commander, however attributed the cause of the accident to brake failure and loss of control on the part of the truck driver.
He said that those injured and dead have been taken to the Ekiti State Teaching Hospital.
On the possible caution on the road that has been noted for fatal traffic crashes, the sector commander said that the road audit of the road had been done 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 as caution for motorists and enable them to know the terrain of the road.
”Aside our headquarters,we also send copies to both the Federal and State Ministries of Works for urgent action as the stretch of the road is becoming a serious death trap.
”We are currently engaging the state government on how we can divert the road from Igede-Ekiti end to reduce the crash on the road as well.
