ENUGU, Nigeria (VOICE OF NAIJA) – Four members of a family have reportedly died in a fatal auto crash which claimed many lives in Enugu on Tuesday, 11 July, 2023.
About seven persons were believed to have died during the accident while many others sustained different degrees of injury in the fatal multiple accident.
The yet to be identified affected family, includes a man, his wife, and two children. But only one of the children was said to have survived.
It was gathered that the incident occurred when a tanker carrying inflammable product had a head on collision with trailer carrying cement and the crash affected other vehicles.
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The vehicles involved in the crash include; a fully loaded GUO bus travelling to Lagos from Ebonyi State, a private car with parents and their two young children and an unmarked bus.
Deputy Governor of Enugu State, Ifeanyi Ossai who was at the scene of the incident for an on the spot assessment, also visited the hospitals where the injured victims were taken to.
Ossai thanked the hospitals for the promptness in treating the victims as well as the first respondents for their efforts in reducing the number casualties.
He said: “We visited the private clinic at 9th mile were substantial number of our citizens are hospitalised and we are also here at the orthopaedic hospital where some of the victims are receiving treatment.
“We’re also grateful to the Doctors for their prompt interventions because I’m sure but for their interventions, we would have had more losses.
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“We’re also grateful to the first respondents; the military personnel, Road Safety Corps, fire service, DSS and police and all the institutions that came and effected immediate response and ensure we didn’t lose more persons than we lost.”
Also, the Deputy Governor assured that the government will assist the injured persons in their treatment.
He said the incident has also exposed the need to strengthen the institutions responsible for maintaining accident free roads as some of accidents are avoidable.
Ossai further stressed on the need for regular vehicle maintenance and training programmes for the drivers.