Fourteen individuals sustained injuries in a multi-vehicle collision at Magboro junction along the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway on Sunday.
Reportedly occurring at around 8:30 a.m., the accident involved three vehicles. A Mazda bus rear-ended a yellow commercial bus at the junction, causing a loss of control for the other vehicles and resulting in the collision.
Local residents, who spoke with our correspondent who visited the scene, revealed that the Mazda bus impact severely damaged the yellow bus.
Salami Idris, a driver who transports passengers from Magboro to the Mowe area of the expressway, shared that he narrowly avoided being involved and highlighted that he and his passengers could have been casualties as well.
“The driver of the Mazda bus filled with passengers was speeding. It hit the yellow bus from behind, and the bus fell towards the sloppy part of the junction where commercial motorcyclists were usually stationed. It was God that saved us. The driver’s hand was badly injured and the bones on his hand were seen,” Idris said.
A motorcyclist who gave his name as Ahmed said he saw officials of the Federal Road Safety Corps taking the injured victims away, expressing fear that some people might have died in the crash.
But the spokesperson for the Ogun State Sector of the FRSC, Florence Okpe, when contacted, said nobody died and 21 passengers were involved while 14 of them were injured.
Okpe said, “No life was lost. It was a multiple crash and three vehicles were involved. The people involved were 21 in number, and 14 people got injured – eight males and six females. It was due to speeding and wrongful overtaking and one of the vehicles lost control.”
