Tragedy again struck on the popular Lagos-Ibadan expressway on Sunday, October 26, 2014, when seven people, including a pregnant woman and a baby were roasted to death. Also, five officials of Ogun State Traffic Compliance and Enforcement Agency (TRACE), and an unspecified number of traffic police officers were injured by hoodlums at Kara, along the busy expressway.
The accident, involving an 18-seat bus, occurred at about 3.30pm as the vehicle, which reportedly took off in Lagos, went up in flames.
It was gathered that the commercial bus painted in white colour, with blue stripes suddenly developed leakages in its fuel compartment, which triggered the fire.
One of the passengers was said to have noticed a spark from the engine and raised the alarm, which made the driver to abruptly stop the vehicle to check what went wrong.
Eyewitnesses claimed after the vehicle stopped, passengers scampered for safety, but it was too late for some of them, who went roasted by the fire due. While seven persons reportedly died, 11 others sustained varying degrees of injuries.
Some of the sympathisers were said to have put a call across to the fire fighters in Ogun State but none arrived the scene until the situation degenerated.
Meanwhile, some TRACE officials were said to have rushed to the scene but were prevented from rendering any assistance as hoodlums descended on them, venting their anger.
In the process, five officials, including the Akute Head of Operations, were assaulted.
It was reported that the incident caused a traffic jam on the expressway outward Lagos which lasted for hours.
Subsequently, the bodies and the injured persons have been taken to Ogun State University Teaching Hospital OSUTH, Sagamu.
TRACE Public Relations Officer Babatunde Akinbiyi, who confirmed the incident, said the officials arrived the scene as soon as they received a distress call, but lamented that the miscreants threw caution to the wind, causing further damage.
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