Over ten persons were reportedly killed in a
ghastly road crashes involving different commercial vehicles along the
Enugu-Abakaliki Expressway in Ebonyi State, yesterday.
Newsmen who visited the scene of the
accidents, which occurred almost simultaneously along the major highway,
included Ezilo axis of Ishielu council area of the state and 135, Ezzamgbo of
Ohaukwu council area of the state claiming many lives, including the
drivers.
Though officials of the Federal Road Safety
Corps, FRSC, could not confirm the accurate number of casualties, one of the
survivors of the Ezillo accident, who identified himself as Mr. Ezekiel said
that the accident occurred when the driver of a white bus coming from Awka to
Abakaliki tried to overtake a Sienna saloon car and headed-on with another bus
from Abakaliki.
The eyewitness blamed the driver of the bus he
was travelling in for reckless driving, adding that the accident could have
been avoided if the driver had heeded several warnings from passengers.
Ezekiel said the driver tried to overtake the
Sienna and ran into another bus coming from Abakaliki which was also on high
speed.
He stated that both drivers lost control of
their vehicles, leading to a head-on collision adding that the Siena bus
skidded off the road and somersaulted many times, killing so many people in the
process.
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