No fewer than 15 persons died in Thursday auto crash, that occurred
at Ubulu Okiti junction in Aniocha South Local Government Area of Delta
State, an official of the Federal Road Safety Commission has said.
Mr Rindom Kumven, Delta State Sector Commander of FRSC, disclosed this on Saturday in Asaba, in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria.
He said a bus, marked DT 266 B28, enroute Asaba-Abraka, was trying to
avoid a head-on collision with an articulated vehicle when the accident
occurred.
The sector commander said the articulated vehicle was also trying to
tow a broken down truck loaded with iron rods at the time of the
incident.
He said the driver of the bus, on sighting the barrier ahead,
attempted to swerve to the other side of the road, but lost control in
the process, as he ran into the articulated vehicle.
Kumven said 14 persons died on the spot, while the FRSC officials
rescued two others and took them to Mother and Child Hospital at
Issele-Uku.
The sector commander, however, said one of them later died and the other had since been discharged.
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