By Eben Enasco
Three passengers on Saturday reportedly lost their lives when a trailer crashed into Popular Transport Company, Iyare Motors vehicle heading to Benin from Lagos, leaving many others with life-threatening injuries.
The incident was said to have happened in the afternoon around the former toll gate area on the Benin-Lagos expressway.
According to a viral video uploaded by a third party and seen by our correspondent a vehicle of the Federal Road Safety Corp, FRSC, was seen carrying out a rescue mission while some passengers’ bodies as well as relics of belongings littered the scene of accident.
When contacted on telephone, a man simply called Victor who identified himself as the Manager of the Company, confirmed the number of the casualty.
Victor disclosed that the truck lost control after a faulty break and rammed into a Siena bus and other vehicles, including a twelve-seater bus belonging to Iyare Motors plying the route leaving three of the passengers dead on the spot.
Also speaking on the incident, the Spokesperson for the Federal Road Safety Corp, FRSC, Edo State Sector Command, Ukor Orevaoghene said the accident happened around the former toll gate area.
Orevaoghene noted that three persons died because of the accident adding that she will furnish more information about the accident at the earliest days.
As of the time of this report, it was still difficult to establish if there are other deaths recorded of passengers that sustained varying degrees of injuries other than the three earlier confirmed on the spot by the authorities.
