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A male passenger has been killed, while three others sustained injuries in a road accident involving a Mazda bus and a truck at the Danco section of the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway, inward Lagos, Ogun State.

The accident occurred on Monday night when a blue Mazda bus with registration number AAA 989 YA collided with an unidentified truck.

The spokesperson for the Ogun State Traffic Compliance and Enforcement Agency, Babatunde Akinbiyi, disclosed this in a traffic update on Tuesday.

Akinbiyi said eight passengers, comprising four men and four women, were in the bus when the crash occurred.

He explained that one male passenger died, while three others, including two women and a man, sustained varying degrees of injuries.

Giving details of the incident, Akinbiyi said an eyewitness blamed the crash on the truck driver, who allegedly reversed onto the expressway before the speeding bus rammed into it from behind.

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He said the truck driver subsequently fled the scene.

“According to an eyewitness, the crash was caused by an unidentified truck which reversed onto the expressway and was hit at the rear by the speeding bus. The truck sped off.

“Eight people, comprising four males and four females, were involved; one male adult died while three persons, including two females and one male, were injured,” he stated.

The TRACE spokesperson added that the injured passengers were taken to a nearby hospital for treatment, while the body of the deceased was deposited at the morgue of the Olabisi Onabanjo University Teaching Hospital.

He further disclosed that officers of TRACE and the Federal Road Safety Corps were deployed to the scene to manage traffic and evacuate the damaged vehicles.

According to him, the accident initially disrupted traffic on the Lagos-bound section of the expressway.

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However, normal traffic movement was restored after the vehicles were evacuated from the road.

“Following the evacuation of the affected vehicles, the axis now enjoys free flow of traffic,” Akinbiyi said.

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