At least 80 persons have been killed in different auto accidents on the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway between January and June 2016.The statistics were obtained from only the cases reported by our correspondents and confirmed by the Federal Road Safety Corps, the Ogun State Traffic Compliance and Enforcement Agency (TRACE), the Ogun State Police Command and other agencies. According to The PUNCH reports within the period, 98 persons sustained varying degrees of injury from the accidents on the expressway.The Federal Road Safety Corps, Zone 2, which monitored accidents in the Lagos and Ogun regions of the expressway, did not release its statistics for the period after one of our correspondents requested them.However, records obtained from the Ogun State TRACE say 91 crashes occurred on the Ogun State end of the expressway in six months.Of the number, 44 people were said to have died, while 149 persons were injured.On Thursday, January 7, a truck had reportedly crashed into a van conveying pepper traders at the Warewa end of the expressway, during which three traders died. It was reported that the driver of the truck fled the scene of the accident while pepper splashed on the expressway with traders struggling to come out of the wreckage.On Wednesday, January 13, five passengers were crushed to death while 13 others were critically injured at the Mowe end of the expressway in an accident involving a truck and a Mazda commercial bus. Thx for reading pls follow me on twitter @uzomanworu77 :-)