11 burnt to death in Ibadan road crash

Tragedy struck in Ibadan yesterday as 11 people were burnt to death in an accident which occurred
 at the Macmillan area, few metres before Soka bust stop, Ibadan/Lagos Expressway .
An eyewitness account said the commercial Mazda bus which was coming from Ogijo in Ogun State and heading to Beere in Ibadan to attend a Wolimat programme of a family member. It was also gathered that most of the occupants were dressed in a uniformed Ankara for the occasion.

It was gathered that the propeller of the bus pulled and hit the fuel tank, catching flame in the process the driver of the bus in an attempt to save the situation veered of the road to hit a trip of sand by the side of the road.

Immediately the bus stopped at a halt, driver of the bus and the two passengers at the front side escaped but others were not as lucky as the side door of the bus was locked. The occupants were reported to have been struggling with one another to escape, and in the process unconsciously disturbed by  one another from getting out, resulting in the high number of casualty in the bus.

Our correspondent gathered that the eleven casualties that died in the accident were eight adults and three children while 13 people including the driver that
 sustained various degree of burn injuries were taken to the Adeoyo Hospital and UCH, Ibadan, Oyo State, Nigeria.

 The Assistant Corp Commander and Unit Commander Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC), Oluyole Ibadan/Lagos toll gate Nigeria , Adeoye Sanya, who  confirmed the incident, said the FRSC were informed of the accident around 1.00p.m that an Ibadan bound bus from Lagos was involved in an accident.

According to an eyewitness, the propeller of the bus was reported to have pull, hitting the fuel tank along the line and catch flame. Having looked around, the driver resulted into hitting a trip of sand by the side of the expressway but that didn’t save the situation.

He however, said that the bus was badly loaded and from the report of the victims-both survivals and the dead-13 injured and 11 were burnt to death, the claim can be established.

He also said that the driver was among the four male victims taken to the Adeoyo Hospital while nine others – seven adults and two children were taken to the University College Hospital (UCH), Ibadan , Oyo State, Nigeria.

He added that after being informed of the development, the quick intervention of the command officers led to the rescue of some of the victims to the hospitals while the remains of the 11 victims were taken away in sacks by the men of the FRSC in two vans with registration number FRSC 522 RS and FRSC 525 RS trucks.

Meanwhile, a middle aged man among one of the onlookers at the scene collapsed when men of the FRSC were pulling out the scar bodies from the bus and it took the intervention of some of his colleagues who poured water on him to revive him back to life.