A MALE CHILD, NINE OTHER PERSONS DIE IN KWARA ROAD ACCIDENT 08-01-24
By Sadiq Aminu Ten persons have reportedly lost their lives early Monday morning in a road traffic crash around a village known as Iyemoja along Olooru-Okoolowo express road in the Moro local government area of Kwara state.
Africa 247 gathered that the fatal crash, which occured around 06:40am involved two vehicles, a Volvo truck and a Toyota Hiace bus.
It was also learnt that a total of 20 people (15 male adults, four female adults and one male child) were involved, while 10 male adults sustained varying degrees of injury and 10 people (5 male adults, four female adults and one male child) lost their lives.
According to reports of the preliminary investigation by the operatives of the state sector command of the Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC), the crash occured due to wrongful overtaking by the driver of the Volvo truck leading to head-on collision with the bus.
The FRSC also said that the bus was coming from Lagos enroute Sokoto and was conveying 17 passengers and goods, while the truck was said to be coming from the North enroute Lagos and had three passengers.
The injured victims have since been taken to General Hospital, Ilorin while corpses of the dead were deposited at the UITH mortuary, Ilorin.