A day started well ended badly for some JAMB candidates on saturday. No fewer than nine JAMB candidates died on Friday April
27th (yesterday) in a fatal accident along the Enugu-Port Harcourt Expressway
when the bus they were traveling in rammed into a stationery truck after the
driver of the bus lost control of his vehicle while speeding.
The Public Relations Officer of the Abia State Police
Command, Mr Geoffrey Ogbonna, said seven persons, including the driver died
instantly while two others died later in hospital. The police did not identify
the victims.
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.
He said that the accident occurred at Obeaku-Ihie in the
Ugwunagbor Local Government Area of Abia at about 10.40 a.m. 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 Aba.
He said that the 15 seater-bus, was conveying mainly
people, going to sit for the JAMB examination, slated for 27 April. 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.
He said that the driver lost control of the vehicle when
he wanted to overtake a vehicle in front of him.
“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.
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