With about 15 minutes to the New Year , 12 lives were reportedly lost in a road crash on Monday near the Bola Ige International Market , Gbagi , along the new Ife – Ibadan Expressway in Ibadan , the Oyo State capital.
Igberetvnews gathered that the victims were crushed to death by a truck coming from the Iwo Road area , which reportedly rammed into commercial buses and other vehicles by the entrance to the market .
Around the same time, firefighters were battling to extinguish an inferno that had engulfed goods estimated at several millions of naira at a shopping complex within the Lekan Salami Stadium , Adamasingba , in the Ekotedo area of Ibadan . No life was lost in the incident.
The Gbagi Market accident, which occurred around 11 . 45 pm, led to gridlock that saw vehicles heading for Ile – Ife in Osun State stranded for several hours.
Although eyewitness could not say if the truck had suffered break failure or if the affected buses were carelessly parked on the road , sources confirmed that two people initially survived the accident and were taken to a nearby hospital , while about 12 other passengers were said to have died immediately.
Apart from the commercial buses , a Toyota Camry and Nissan Micra cars were also said to have been crushed by the truck.
Sources said that many of the victims were going to churches for the crossover service in the Iyana- Agbala and Egbeda areas of the city.
The situation also made many, who were on their way to churches for the service , to be stranded on the highway .
The dead victims included a pregnant woman, identified simply as Mrs Funmilayo , who was said to be on her way to her in – laws ’ , a bus driver identified as ‘ Orobo Baba Welder ’ , and many others who could not be identified as of the time of filing this report.
Confirming the accident, the state Police Public Relations Officer , Adekunle Ajisebutu , however , put the casualty figure at 11.
A report by the Sector Commander of the Federal Road Safety Corps in the state , Mrs Cecilia Alao , indicated that 12 people died as a result of the accident and that their corpses had been deposited in the morgue of the Oyo State Specialist Hospital , Adeoyo.
She noted that aside the nine , who died on the spot, three others lost their lives on Tuesday , out of the 10 injured victims , who were taken to the Toun Specialist Hospital , Iwo Road, for medical attention.
The FRSC statement on the accident read in part, “ The command recorded a fatal road traffic crash on Monday , December 31 , 2018 , around 11 . 45 pm at Km 3 Gbagi, along the Ibadan – Ile -Ife highway .
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