Four persons reportedly lost their lives in an accident involving a bus along the Kaduna-Abuja Road in the early part of Sunday.
A personnel of the Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) who hails from Iseyin in Oyo State and was present when the incident occurred said the 18-passenger bus took off from Ado-Awaye on Saturday and was heading towards Abuja when the driver dozed off and skidded under a moving trailer.
The source added that the driver, an indigene of Ado-Awaye was taken to a nearby hospital alongside others who sustained various degrees of injuries.
Four of the passengers however died immediately from the accident.
“Our patrol team was nearby when we heard the loud noise from the impact of the collision as the bus rammed under the trailer from the back.
“The trailer driver didn’t know anything and was still pulling the bus until people started shouting and calling him to stop, by then, four of the passengers have died on the spot.
”We suspected that the driver must have dozed off out of exhaustion or tiredness.
“He was the only Yoruba person among them and I learnt he is from Ado-Awaye and I am also from Iseyin”, the source, who sought anonymity said.
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