No fewer than five persons have lost their lives in a multiple motor accident that occurred along Nsukka 9th Mile express way last Thursday night.
Eye witnesses said a Toyota Carina car with registration number 402 LGT, a 14 -sitter bus belonging to Royal Mass Transit with registration number XW 745 ENU and Sino truck belonging to Dangote with registration number XA 257 PKG were involved in the accident.
Confirming the accident, the Nsukka unit commander of the Federal Road Safety Commission, FRSC, Mr. John Eneze said it occurred at Ohodo in Igbo-Etiti Local Government Area of Enugu State.
The FRSC unit commander added that the accident happened around 9.45pm, stating that apart from the five deaths, 10 other passengers were seriously injured.
“The five dead persons have been deposited at Bishop Shanahan Hospital Nsukka mortuary. The injured were also rushed to the same hospital”.
While attributing the accident to night travel, he? warned? commuters to desist from such in their own interest especially during “ember months”.
“If it were in the daytime, that accident would have been averted. Big truck drivers should always allow small cars to pass without necessarily blocking the road; this results in accident most times', he advised.
Another? source told our correspondent? that the accident was caused by “overtaking and the stubbornness of the truck driver, who refused to give way for the Carina to pass”.
“It was indeed a horrible sight because all the five young men in that Carina car died on the spot. Many passengers in the bus sustained serious injury”, he said.