No fewer than 11 persons were killed, while seven others sustained injuries in a fatal crash that occurred at Okhuahe community along the Benin-Agbor Road in Edo State.
The accident, which occurred on Saturday, involved an 18-seater commercial bus heading towards Lagos and an oncoming truck.
Eyewitness accounts revealed that the crash happened when the bus driver attempted to overtake another vehicle and collided head-on with the truck.
Confirming the incident, Mr Cyril Mathew, Edo Sector Commander of the Federal Road Safety Commission, said 11 victims died instantly at the scene.
“The crash involved a truck and an 18-seater bus. The bus attempted to overtake another vehicle and in the process had a head-on collision with an oncoming truck,” he said.
Mathew disclosed that seven other passengers sustained varying degrees of injuries.
“The corpses were evacuated to the morgue, while the injured victims were rushed to nearby hospitals for medical treatment,” he added.
The FRSC sector commander cautioned motorists against dangerous driving habits, particularly wrongful overtaking, warning that such actions continued to claim innocent lives on Nigerian highways.
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