The number of fatalities in the Wednesday night traffic accident involving some Ladoke Akintola University, LAUTECH, Ogbomoso students has increased from three to six.
On Friday, OBASSANJO NEWS24 learned that three other pupils, who were survivors, had passed away in the hospital.
The bus’s three occupants—the driver, a female student, and a male student—were burned to death when it somersaulted and lost control on the Osogbo-Ilobu-Ogbomoso road.
Following its arrival at the scene of the collision and attending to the distress call, the Osun Ambulance Service, or O’Ambulance, had already saved six further passengers.
According to reports, the driver hit a commercial motorcycle in Okinni known as a “Okada” and, in an effort to avoid being apprehended and the ensuing wrath of the locals, oversped and lost control of the car.
“The bus’s driver lost control of the vehicle a short distance from Ojutu Bridge, causing it to somersault and catch fire. Before the fire could spread, some individuals were rescued, but three of them perished from burn injuries. Operatives from the O’Ambulance Scheme arrived to save some of the casualties, according to Rasaq, an Okinni native.
Elizabeth Arowosafe, O’Ambulance’s head of operations, also revealed that three more accident victims had passed away.
I just got out of the UNIOSUN Teaching Hospital. Only three of those we transported there lived. Two more have been transferred to UCH in Ibadan. At the UNIOSU Teaching Hospital, one of them is still present. The other three were unable to travel. Six bodies have now been found.
