The accident happened along Siun – Kobape stretch of the Abeokuta – Sagamu road on Sunday.
Two women have lost their lives in a lone accident involving a commercial bus along Siun – Kobape stretch of the Abeokuta – Sagamu road.
Five other persons were also said to have sustained serious injuries from the accident on Sunday.
The driver of the 14 passengers’ commercial bus lost control of the vehicle, after one of its tyres bursted at the Siun – Kobape area.
Two female passengers, according to an eyewitness, were thrown out of the vehicle’s windows and died instantly after its rammed into a concrete structure on the road median.
The Operatives of the Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC), Ogun State Traffic Compliance and Enforcement Corps (TRACE) and Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) were, however, sighted helping evacuating victims and directing traffic.
Speaking on the fatal accident, the Public Relations Officer of TRACE, Babatunde Akinbiyi said it was a lone accident.
He said: “When the vehicle lost control, it ran into the road divider, hit the electric pole by the side and somersaulted. It was in the course of the somersault that two female passengers were thrown out of the vehicle, because they didn’t wear seat belts and died.
“Remains of the dead passengers were deposited at the Olabisi Onabanjo University Teaching Hospital (OOUTH), Sagamu, while three of the injured were taken to the same OOUTH and four others taken to Owode General Hospital, Owode,” Akinbiyi said.
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