Over 20 people have been reported dead on Tuesday along Ojo-Iwo Road of Ibadan-Lagos expressway, around Agbowo/Ajao area when a trailer loaded with roofing sheets collided with multiple vehicles.
People that witnessed the accident told told newsmen that the trailer lost it’s break and rammed into the 3 vehicles involved plying the same 2-way traffic.
Narrating the accident, Mr. Emmanuel Omotoso and Mrs. Funmi Adejumo told Radio Nigeria the ongoing construction of the Lagos -Ibadan expressway could be responsible for the fatality as the other lane of the expressway was blocked.
It took the efforts of private heavy towing vehicles for the trapped vehicles to be removed.
Some of the passengers have been rescued and rushed to hospital for medical attention.
However, the motorists appealed to Oyo State government to purchase heavy towing vehicles and ambulance buses for rescue operation in case of emergency situation like it happened this morning.
Officials of Federal Road Safety Corps, Nigeria Police Force, NSCDC and OYRTMA officers are at presently at the location of the incident to ease the tension and to control the traffic.
The motorists therefore called on the contractor handling the road construction to open up the other lane that was blocked to prevent future occurrence of accident that claims many lives every day on Ojo-Iwo Road expressway.
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