Three persons were killed while 10 others sustained injuries in a lone accident involving a Mazda bus at Onipepeye area on the Abeokuta-Sagamu Expressway on Sunday.
Ahmed Umar, FRSC Sector Commander in Ogun State, on Sunday confirmed the accident to newsmen in Abeokuta.
He blamed the accident on excessive speeding as the driver of the bus, marked: APP 297 YC, lost control at a bend and summersaulted.
He added that 15 persons were involved in the accident, comprising of four men, nine women, a boy and a girl, saying that 10 people were injured while two men and a woman died.
Umar said the injured were taken State Hospital, Ijaiye, Abeokuta, while the deceased were deposited at the morgue of same hospital.
The Sector Commander commiserated with the families of the crash victims, who were suspected to be returning to their homes from the Redemption City of the Redeemed Christian Church of God on the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway and advised motorists to avoid excessive speeding.
The Eagle Online recalls that the RCCG ended in 2022 Convention, presided over by its General Overseer, Worldwide, Pastor Enoch Adejare Adeboye, in the early hours of Sunday.
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