The bus conveying the students before the incident occurred.
Six students of the Quantity and Surveying Department of The Polytechnic, Ibadan, Oyo state have been confirmed dead from a ghastly motor accident on Monday, February 8, 2016.
Daily Sun reports that the students were on their way from Oyo to Ibadan, the state capital when the ugly incident occurred.
It was gathered that thirteen other occupants of the 18-seater bus sustained varying degrees of injuries in the automobile crash which occurred at Motunde, on Ibadan-Oyo expressway at about 6.00pm.
While the deceased’s corpses were deposited at the morgue in Adeoye State Hospital, Yemetu in Ibadan, the injured victims of the crash were taken to St Patrick Private Hospital and General Hospital in Oyo.
A tyre burst during the vehicles’s movement and somersaulted several times before hitting the road divider and six students died on the spot.
Adekunle Ajisebutu, Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO) in the state confirmed that six persons died while 13 others were injured.
Also confirming the incident was the Sector Commander of the Federal Road Safety Commission (FRSC) in Oyo state, Yusuf Salami, said the details of the accident were still being compiled.
The Ibadan expressway has been suspect recently as several multiple accidents have occurred in recent weeks, where many people have also lost their lives.
Just yesterday, it was reported that a trailer carrying goats and about 100 human beings collided with a parked bus and no fewer than 17 people lost their lives in the process on the Lagos/Ibadan Expressway, a situation which has thrown so many families into mourning.
While deaths of people were recorded, there was record of death of any goat or the animals that were traveling with the vehicle.
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