4 dead, 14 injured in Ondo road crash

FOUR persons died in an auto crash that occurred at Igbara-Oke in
Ifedore Local Government Area of Ondo State, weekend.
Fourteen others sustained injuries, following a head-on collision of
an 18-passenger Mazda bus, number plate Lagos KSF 706 XF, and a Honda
Accord saloon, AA 239 GBH.
The officer in charge of Field Operation of the Sector Command of the
Federal Road Safety Commission, FRSC, in the state, Mr. Joseph
Ojerinde, toldVanguardthat the accident occurred at 6.30pm on
Saturday.
Ojerinde attributed the crash to the reckless driving. He said the
Honda car made a dangerous overtake and collided with the bus, which
was coming from the opposite direction.
Ojerinde said: "Immediately we were informed about the accident, our
men moved to the scene, we were told that the Honda Accord car,
dangerously overtook a vehicle and had a head-on collision with the
Mazda bus coming from the other side."
He said 22 persons were in both cars: 14 males, four females and four
under-aged children, adding that the dead were adult males.
Their corpses have been deposited at the mortuary of the
StateSpecialistHospital, Akure, while those injured were taken to the
General Hospitals in Igbara-Oke and Ilara-Mokin for treatment.