The Federal Road Safety Commission has confirmed the death 16 people in an accident involvinv several vehicles in Ibadan, the Oyo State capital on Tuesday.
The Network gathered that the accident occurred when a Mack truck with registration number AKM 548 ZY had a break failure and rammed into vehicles carrying 35 passengers.
The spokesman of the Oyo State Sector Command, Mr Mayowa Odewo, who confirmed the casualty figure to journalists also said that 17 others sustained different degrees of injuries.
The Network can report authoritatively that the accident occurred a the Ojoo-Iwo Road axis of the Lagos-Ibadan expressway on Tuesday.
The FRSC Spokesman said that the accident was caused by break failure of a Mack truck with registration number AKM 548 ZY.
According to him, the accident involved 35 people comprising 14 male adults, 10 female adults, six female children and five male children.
Odewo said that only two people escaped without injuries.
He said that the FRSC had taken the 17 injured victims to the hospital and handed over the corpses
to the police.
He listed the vehicles involved in the accident to include a Nissan commercial bus, MUB 20 LG; a Nissan Micra taxi, BDJ 520 YC; and a private Honda Accord SUV, KRD 707 ER.
“The accidented vehicles have been taken to Irepodun Police Station, along Agbowo-Ojoo Road, by the police.
“Sadly, no victim was saved by seat belts or other defensive gadgets,” he said.
