At least 15 people lost their lives while several others were injured in an auto crash involving a truck and three commercial buses in Asaba, Delta State. The truck carrying cement ran over three Mitsubishi commercial buses plying the ever busy Asaba-Onitsha Expressway.
A witness, who identified himself simply as Chinedu, said the truck was on speed while descending the slope between Asaba and Abraka before it lost control and swerved towards the three waiting buses. Chinedu said the buses were picking passengers before the accident occurred. He said: “Before the passengers could disengage from the buses, the truck had crushed them.”
Abraka Junction, the Asaba Master Plan shows, is one the 13 dangerous U-turn points which have become fatal accidents spots since the creation of the state in 1991. Others are between the entrance to Asaba metropolis at Okpanam in Oshimili North Local Government Area of the state, and the River Niger Bridge, which links the state with Onitsha in Anambra State.
The gridlock caused by the accident forced motorists, especially those travelling from the South-West to the South-East to use the link roads within the metropolis to continue their journey. Sympathisers and relatives of those affected were wailing at the scene of the accident.
Officials of the Federal Road Safety Commission (FRSC) had a hectic time freeing the road. The bodies of the victims were deposited at the morgue of the Federal Medical Centre (FMC), Asaba, while those who sustained injuries were rushed to an undisclosed hospital.
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