In a tragic road accident, nine people lost their life. According to the officials, none killed and three others injured in a highway accident in the Nigerian southern state of Cross River on Friday.
A commander of the Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC), told Cyprian Ofodu that a truck and a commercial bus had a head-on collision at Okurikang, along the Calabar-Itu highway in the state. He further added that all the casualties were travelling in the bus. The police have launched an investigation into the incident. Poor roads, badly maintained vehicles, and reckless driving are the reasons of road accident in Nigeria.
Earlier, last week Four people were killed and 43 others hospitalized following a single-vehicle road accident in Nigeria’s southwestern state of Oyo on Wednesday, a government agency said. The accident occurred along the Oyo-Ogbomosho highway, as a truck carrying both humans and animals fell into a deep pothole while in motion, and veered off the road into a bush, the country’s Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) told reporters in Ibadan.
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