20 die in Lagos-Ibadan, Mokwa highway crashes
...As FRSC warns against dangerous driving NO fewer than 20 persons have been confirmed dead and six others injured, in a fatal crash on Lagos-Ibadan expressway, and in Mokwa, Niger State. The Assistant Corps Marshal and Corps Public Education Officer, Bisi Kazeem, in a statement, yesterday, in Abuja, on behalf of the FRSC Acting Corps Marshal, Mr. Dauda Biu, attributed the crash that occurred at 06.30am, along the Ibadan-Lagos route, a few minutes before Guru Maharaji Ji area, Oyo State, to wanton violation of speed limit and indulgence in dangerous driving. He said that the Mokwa fatal crash occurred at 3.30 a.m while a lone crash also occurred in Otukpo at about 11.35 a.m. on Tuesday. "According to a preliminary investigation conducted into the fatal crashes, the Ibadan avoidable accident is a lone crash that involved a Toyota bus with number plates TRK 135 ZY. "While the Mokwa crash involved a trailer transiting from Lagos which had a head-on collision with a bus and the ...