Crash

12 dead, four injured in Lagos-Ibadan expressway crash

4 months ago1155 min

No fewer than 12 people were reported dead on Tuesday while four others were injured in a lone crash which occurred at about 3:15 pm around Ogere along the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway. The lone accident involved a White Mazda Bus with registration number DDA733XA. The crash was adduced to wrongful overtaking after which the bus lost control, hit the road divider, somersaulted and burst into flame. Scene of the accident The Spokesperson for the Ogun State...

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Two children, three others die in Abia auto crash

4 months ago1845 min

Two children and three other passengers were confirmed as casualties of a fatal auto crash on Sunday involving an Abia Line Network Sienna vehicle and a Mack truck near the Umuika Junction along the Enugu-Aba-Port Harcourt Expressway while the Sienna was going from Abakaliki in Ebonyi State to Aba in Abia State. The Abia State Police Command and the state command of the Federal Road Safety Corps confirmed the casualty figure on Monday at a...

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Two babies, three others die in Abia crash

4 months ago946 min

The driver of an Abia Line Network Sienna vehicle, on Sunday, survived a fatal crash, but his passengers including two babies did not survive. The Abia Police Command and the state Command of Federal Road Safety Corps have since confirmed the incident. The incident happened near the Umuika Junction along the Enugu-Aba-Port Harcourt expressway on Sunday at about 12:45 pm while the Sienna was going from Abakaliki in Ebonyi State to Aba in Abia State....

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Two C’River varsity students killed in auto crash

5 months ago6225 min

Two students of Cross River State University were killed when six of them were involved in an auto crash while travelling to their homes following a two-week closure of the institution on Monday. PUNCH Metro gathered that the students who boarded the same bus were on their way to Ogoja in the northern part of the state, when the accident occurred near Ikom, along the Calabar–Ikom highway. The school closure was reportedly to stop students...

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Two killed in Ireland helicopter crash

5 months ago992 min

Two people on board a small single-engine helicopter were killed Tuesday after their aircraft crashed into a farm building in central Ireland, said a statement by Irish police. AFP reports that the aircraft crashed onto the roof of a pig-farm outhouse near Mullingar, 80 kilometres (50 miles) northwest of Dublin, around 15:30 GMT. “Two people on board the aircraft were pronounced deceased at the scene,” said the police statement. One of the victims was an...

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Two killed, nine injured in Ogun multiple crash

5 months ago1006 min

A truck driver and his assistant reportedly fled the scene of an accident after ramming into a bus, killing one and injuring nine others along the Sagamu Express junction of Ogun State on Sunday. This is just as a motor assistant lost his life when a containerised truck crashed along the Odo-Gomez area of the same expressway on Sunday. The first accident, according to a Sunday statement by the spokesperson of the Traffic Compliance and...

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Eight Kogi schoolchildren escape death in auto crash

5 months ago905 min

There was a great relief on Thursday when eight schoolchildren returning from an end-of-term party escaped death as a truck loaded with tractors fell on the two cars they were travelling in. The accident occurred in the Lokongoma market along the Okene-Kabba Road in Lokoja, the Kogi State capital. Our correspondent who visited the scene of the accident reports that all eight schoolchildren were successfully rescued from the two crushed vehicles, one Mitsubishi with registration...

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One dies in Anambra road crash

5 months ago954 min

One person died in an accident that occurred along the Nteje-Awka-Onitsha Expressway opposite the Federal Road Safety Corps Unit Command in Anambra State, on Saturday. According to eyewitnesses, a driver identified as Chinweuba Chidiebere with a Toyota Camry number plate ABJ125JV, and an unidentified driver of a Ford Explorer with number plate ZBL626RL were involved in a fatal crash. The sources said the driver of the Camry lost control and crossed to the lane of...

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One dies, two injured in Anambra road crash

5 months ago924 min

One person died and two others were injured in an accident that occurred along the Nteje-Awka-Onitsha Expressway opposite the Federal Road Safety Corps Unit Command in Anambra State, on Saturday. Eyewitnesses who spoke to our correspondent on Sunday near the scene said a driver identified as Chinweuba Chidiebere with a private Toyota Camry with registration number: ABJ125JV, and an unidentified driver of a private Ford Explorer with registration number: ZBL626RL were involved in the fatal...

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Family Of Ogunbanjo, Former Nigerian Exchange Group Chairman Killed In California Helicopter Crash Alongside Wigwe, Others Sues Charter Company

9 months ago1036 min

The family of the late former Chairman of the Nigerian Exchange Group, Abimbola Ogunbanjo, has filed a lawsuit against the United States helicopter company, Orbic Air over his death in a helicopter crash in February. SaharaReporters had reported that Ogunbanjo was killed alongside former Chief Executive Officer of Access Holdings, Dr Herbert Wigwe, his wife Chizoba and his son during a charted helicopter crash in Southern California near the Nevada border, United States of America....