Three persons were crushed to death when an unidentified driver of a commercial blue truck marked LSD697YD and an unidentified driver of a commercial blue/white Mitsubishi L300 bus with number plate: LEH596XA collided.
It was gathered that 10 people, comprising six male adults and four female adults, were involved in the crash. While three persons comprising two males and one female died on the spot, seven others were injured.The rescue team of the Federal Road Safety Corps from RS5.31, Onitsha, took the victims to a hospital where the three persons were confirmed dead by the doctor on duty and their corpses deposited at the hospital morgue.
She said, “The truck developed a fault and broke down on the bridge. On sighting a van towing another vehicle out of the bridge, the driver of the truck sensed that the towing truck might come back later to tow his vehicle. He quickly moved his vehicle without fixing the defect. “On getting to the place where the Ojukwu statue is, it finally collided with a bus and crashed. The driver took to his heels thereafter.’’
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