Barely a week and two days after the ghastly motor accident which claimed many lives along the Benin-Asaba Expressway in Delta State, another ghastly motor accident on Saturday evening claimed the lives of 12 persons including the driver. Reports said that the accident occurred on the same spot few metres away from the NNPC Mega Station, Asaba after the driver of a red-coloured bus returning from a marriage ceremony and was heading towards Asaba lost one of the bus’ tyres. Eyewitness Paul Osaniye said the accident occurred after the driver lost one of the tyres on high speed, causing the bus with Registration Number AX 166 SL to somersault severally, thereby killing many of its occupants. But doctors at the Federal Medical Centre (FMC), Asaba, where the bodies of the victims were taken to, said the passengers were identified to be police men and women who were returning from a marriage ceremony of one of their colleagues in Agbor, adding that six of the passengers were severely injured and are in critical condition at present. Efforts by our correspondent to speak with the commander of the Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) in Delta proved abortive as he was said to have travelled out of Asaba, but an official of the corps who did not want his name in print confirmed that the accident occurred when one of the tyres burst, saying that the driver of the bus was over-speeding, and that the occupants of the bus were mainly security agents. The Police Public Relations Officer in the state, Mrs. Celestina Kalu, said she was yet to receive the report of the accident, adding that she was going to investigate and get back to our correspondent. http://leadership.ng/news/479274/auto-crash-12-passengers-driver-perish-delta

This is becoming too much in my beloved state o. God save us o!

this is the season........