A report by The Nation indicates that at least 18 persons on Wednesday, October 25, narrowly escaped death in a car collision that happened on the Long Bridge section of the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway.
According to the reports, the white 18-seater Mazda bus with the registration number FKJ285Y was transporting people from Maryland to Ibadan, Oyo state, when the accident occurred.
One of the passengers, a mother of a six-month-old baby, said: “If not for God and the driver, I would have been a dead person by now. We thank God and the driver for saving us.”
Another passenger, Abubakar, who was travelling to Kebbi state but planned to alight at Ibadan, claimed that the money he had on him could no longer get him to his goal in Kebbi state and wept that he was the saddest on the bus.
He said: “I am the saddest person on this bus; the money with me can’t take me to Kebbi anymore. The driver collected N2,600 from us before leaving the park, and he was not ready to refund us or call for backup in the park to come and carry his stranded passengers.”
