Its a sad Saturday as Nine young persons on their way for the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board Examinations holding today met their death in a ghastly motor accident along Aba - Port Harcourt Expressway this Morning.
The Public Relations Officer of the Abia State Police Command, Mr Geoffrey Ogbonna, who confirmed the incident, the accident occurred at Obeaku-Ihie in the Ugwunagbor Local Government Area of Abia at about 10.40 a.m. seven persons, including the driver died instantly while two others died later in the hospital.
The police image maker said that the candidates were travelling on a Hiace bus with registration number Rivers XY 249 from Port Harcourt to Aba. Ogbonna said that the driver of the bus rammed into a truck with with registration number Lagos XC 109 SLK, parked off the road.
Ogbonna said that the dead had been deposited at the mortuary while six survivors of the accident were in critical condition and receiving medical attention in a hospital in Aba.
He said that the 15 seater-bus, was conveying mainly people, going to sit for the JAMB examination, slated according to him, the clue comes from the items recovered at the scene of the accident.
A witness, Mr Peter Okolo, attributed the accident to over-speeding and recklessness on the part of the driver. “When he saw an upcoming vehicle while he was over-taking the car in front of him, he veered off the road and then rammed into the truck parked off the road,” Okolo said.
May their souls Rest in Peace
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