At least 10 passengers died in an accident that involved a DAF trailer on the Abuja-Kaduna expressway.
The Federal Road Safety Corps spokesman, Jonas Agwu, disclosed this in a statement on Tuesday, noting that the accident occurred on Monday as a result of excessive speed, overloading and fatigue.
The statement read, “The driver lost control of the wheels and crashed into a ditch at about 10:30hrs with all the 172 male passengers aboard the trailer.”
Agwu explained that 10 of the passengers died while 48 sustained injuries, explaining that the FRSC rescue team evacuated the victims to St. Anthony and Umaru Musa Yar’Adua hospitals in Kaduna.
In the statement, the spokesman that efforts are ongoing by FRSC Operatives to follow up on the injured victims in the hospitals to ensure they receive necessary medical attention.
Corps Marshal Dauda Ali-Biu urged all sector commanders to strengthen nationwide enforcement and advocacy campaigns against speeding, overloading and reckless driving as steps to curtail accidents in the country’s highways.
He equally stressed that they must also caution trailer drivers against conveying human beings on top of goods in their vehicles and directed the commanders to commence result-oriented patrol operations with mobile courts along critical corridors with immediate effect.
