No fewer than nineteen people were burnt to death in an auto crash along the Okene-Lokoja highway in Kogi state.
In a statement made available by the public education officer of the Federal Road Safety Corps, Jonas Agwu, on Sunday, disclosed that the accident involved a Dangote truck with registration details NSH680YJ and a Toyota Hiace bus with registration number KMC455ZE.
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The statement reads: “The TYT bus loaded from Kano was on its lane on the highway when the Dangote Truck driver who drove all the way from Port Harcourt wrongfully overtook a vehicle & collided head-on with the bus. The impact of the collision resulted in an inferno that burnt the victims to death.”
“Unfortunately, 19 people out of the 22 victims were killed and 1 injured. The remaining 2 victims who got rescued by FRSC operatives without injuries survived the crash because they complied with traffic regulations on compulsory use of seatbelt.”
