The driver had fallen asleep on the steering, she says.
Sixteen of them were inside the bus, she said.
Miss Essien said the driver occasionally dozed off while driving, and would sniff some snuff , apparently with the hope that it could help him to stay awake. “A lot of people in the bus had slept off. The driver was sleeping, he fell asleep while driving,” she said.“When I heard ‘kpoom’, I woke up, the roof of the vehicle was no longer there, I told the girl that was beside me to jump out of the vehicle, so she jumped out.
One of the victims later died at the hospital. The bus driver was alive, but had a small cut on his head, according to her.Miss Essien said before the accident when the bus arrived in Kogi State around 1:20 a.m., the driver had rejected her appeal that they should park the bus at a filling station and spend the night there before proceeding on the journey.
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