About nine persons, including a pregnant woman, reportedly died in an accident which occurred on Ilorin-Ogbomoso road in the morning of Sunday, February 20, 2022.
The accident, which involved a commercial Toyota Hiace bus and a private Toyota car, occurred at about 8am opposite the Ilorin International Airport Authority in Kwara state.
It was gathered that one of the vehicles involved in the crash was carrying petrol-filled kegs.
Official information from the Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) said that the accident involved a Toyota bus with registration number AFN 06 YL and a private light ash Toyota Corolla car with number LRN 787 FE.
The cause of the accident, according to the FRSC, was attributed to over-speeding and non adherence to road safety rules.
Sources said that the Lagos-bound passenger bus had loaded at the Geri Alimi motor park, heading outward Ilorin metropolis, when it rammed into the private vehicle.
The private vehicle, said to be coming out of the airport, failed to wait for the oncoming passenger bus to pass, while the crash, said to have occured as a result of over-speeding.
It was gathered that the vehicles involved somersaulted and had tyre burst before they were engulfed in flame.
The Sector Commander of FRSC in Kwara state, Mr Jonathan Owoade, said that the casualties in the accident were nine made up of eight females and one male.
According to Owoade, the accident involved 20 passengers – eight males and 12 females in the two vehicles.
He added that while eight persons sustained various degrees of injury, nine passengers including eight female and one male were recovered dead from the accident.
The commander said that the types of injuries sustained in the accident included burns and open wound bruises.
He said that the injured had been taken to the General Hospital, Ilorin by some good Samaritans before the FRSC officials arrived at the scene, while the corpses of the dead were deposited in the morgue of the University of Ilorin Teaching Hospital (UITH), Oke-Oyi in Ilorin East Local Government Area of the state by the patrol team.
