Seven Killed, Two Injured as Multiple Vehicles Collide on Lagos-Ibadan Expressway
Ogun State — Seven people have been confirmed dead and two others injured following a multiple auto crash in the early hours of Monday along the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway, the Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) has announced.
The crash occurred at about 12:03 a.m. around Kara, in the Ibafo section of the expressway, and involved three vehicles: a white HOWO CNG/CIMC ENRIC truck, a white MACK trailer, and a Mitsubishi Canter bearing registration number JJJ920YA. According to the Ogun State Sector Command of the FRSC, all nine people involved in the crash were male. Seven of them died at the scene, while the remaining two sustained injuries and were taken away for medical treatment.
The Chief Superintendent Route Commander of the state sector, Afolabi Odunsin, confirmed the incident in a statement issued in Abeokuta, the Ogun State capital. He explained that the corps’ Ibafo Outpost received the distress report shortly after the crash occurred and arrived at the scene within approximately five minutes. The incident was officially classified as a fatal multiple road traffic crash, with speed violation identified as the probable cause, though the FRSC noted that investigations into the exact circumstances were still ongoing.
Following the crash, the bodies of the deceased were evacuated by the Ogun State Ambulance Service, while the injured victims were transported to a nearby medical facility for treatment. The damaged vehicles were subsequently handed over to the Motor Traffic Division of the Nigeria Police Force in Ibafo for further investigation and processing.
The Sector Commander overseeing the corridor extended condolences to the families of those who lost their lives and wished the injured a speedy recovery. He also renewed calls for motorists, particularly drivers of articulated vehicles, to exercise greater caution on the road and avoid reckless behaviours that could put other road users at risk.
This latest tragedy adds to a troubling pattern of fatal accidents recorded around the Kara and Ibafo corridor of the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway in recent months. In late July, a separate multiple crash at Kara Bridge involving five articulated trucks and a Toyota Sienna claimed one life and left another person injured, an incident the FRSC also attributed to speed violation and loss of vehicle control. Earlier in the year, another crash near the NASFAT Junction on the same expressway killed six people and injured two others, while a lone truck crash near Four Square Camp in February left six dead and 23 injured.
The recurring accidents along this stretch of road, one of Nigeria’s busiest transport corridors linking Lagos to southwestern states, have continued to raise concerns among road safety stakeholders about driver conduct, vehicle speed regulation, and the broader state of road infrastructure along the route.
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