A middle aged man died instantly, while some others sustained
varying degrees of injury, following a multiple automobile crash which
occurred Thursday along the ever busy Owerri-Umuahia road.
The major culprit sped
away after noticing the effect of his carelessness.
While the
lone occupant of the Nissan saloon car with registration number SF 609
KJA died instantly, a few passengers in the Bournvita branded Toyota
Hiace bus, XC 663 WEN, suffered varying degrees of injury and were
rushed to hospital.
The driver of the Imo Transport Company, ITC,
whose vehicle, a Mitsubishi L300 bus, XG 109 PHC, was involved in the
crash, gave a graphic account of how the accident happened to some
officers of Federal Road Safety Corps, FRSC.
“The driver of the
Nissan vehicle was overtaking the Bournvita branded bus as they were
descending the hill and heading towards Mbaise. Sadly, the driver of
another red coloured Japanese car opted to overtake from the right of
the bus”, the ITC driver recounted.
Continuing, the driver said
that the Bournvita branded bus, who was helmed in at the time, brushed
the Nissan car and it started somersaulting.
“The bus driver
equally lost control and crashed into my bus, which I parked neatly and
off the road as soon as I saw what was happening in front of me. The
driver of the red Japanese car sped away”, the ITC driver said.
None
of the FRSC officers at the scene wanted to talk to Vanguard at the
scene but they recovered what they thought were the dead man’s priced
belongings and later his remains to the mortuary
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