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Tipper Truck Rammed Into Commercial Buses In Benin Kills 9
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Tipper truck with its bucket filled with sand rammed into two commercial buses along Sakponba road in Benin City killing over 9 persons.
The accident occurred early this morning according to eye witnesses’ account.
It would be recalled on August 22, 2017, a tipper truck driver on same road rammed into commercial bus by Oka Market area killing 9 persons.
Photographs posted by residents in Benin shows the accident occurred about 7:30 a.m today around Bureau De Change quarters well known as Erie by Ogbelaka junction along Sakponba road in the Ikpoba Okha Local Government Area of Edo State.
Some of the eye witnesses said the tipper truck driver was trying to overtake another truck when the vehicle rammed into the commercial buses.
Others said the truck and the commercial vehicles were on speed.
Tribune newspaper quoted the Edo State Command of the Nigeria Police Force spokesperson, Bello Kontongs, the police saying, only 4 persons died, that the truck coming from Upper Sakponba road lost control and ran into a white bus, killing 3 persons at the spot while one died on the way to the hospital. Adding, other injured victims have been rushed to the hospital for treatment.
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