{"id":4027,"date":"2023-11-26T09:07:44","date_gmt":"2023-11-26T09:07:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/13-injured-in-lagos-ibadan-highway-crash\/"},"modified":"2023-11-26T09:07:44","modified_gmt":"2023-11-26T09:07:44","slug":"13-injured-in-lagos-ibadan-highway-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/13-injured-in-lagos-ibadan-highway-crash\/","title":{"rendered":"13 injured in Lagos-Ibadan highway crash"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>No fewer than 13 passengers sustained varying degrees of injuries in a crash along the Lagos-Ibadan expressway.<\/p>\n<p>The road crash occurred in the earlier hours of Sunday around Car Park C, in Ogun State.<\/p>\n<p>The Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) confirmed the road accident to DAILY POST, saying it happened at about 4:55 am.<\/p>\n<p>Spokesperson of the FRSC in Ogun State, Florence Okpe, said operatives of the agency had swiftly responded to carry out rescue operations.<\/p>\n<p>According to her, a total of 22 persons were involved in the crash, 21 male adults and one female adult.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c13 persons were injured (12 male adult and one female adult). No live was lost from the crash,\u201d Okpe said.<\/p>\n<p>She added that the crash involved three trucks with number plates: KBT205XB, KJA230Y and DUT35XE.<\/p>\n<p>It also involved a Toyota Corolla car registered as MUS793HM and a Toyota Hiace bus marked FG369-F20.<\/p>\n<p>The suspected causes of the crash, were road obstruction and speeding, which she said led to loss of control.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe injured victims were taken to Farmobis Hospital Mowe Lotto for medical attention,\u201d she stated.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the Ogun Sector Commander of the FRSC, Anthony Uga, has advised motorists to always apply caution when on the road, urging them to also drive defensively.<\/p>\n<p>13 injured in Lagos-Ibadan highway crash<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No fewer than 13 passengers sustained varying degrees of injuries in a crash along the Lagos-Ibadan expressway. The road crash&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4028,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5365,1856,385,384,15],"tags":[5366,1858,164,387,180],"class_list":["post-4027","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-crash","category-ibadan","category-lagos","category-metro","category-news","tag-crash","tag-ibadan","tag-lagos","tag-metro","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4027","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4027"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4027\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4028"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}