Ten people were killed and six injured when a passenger bus collided with a truck near Sapade Bridge on the Ibadan-Lagos motorway in Nigeria's Ogun State, the Federal Road Safety Corps said. The crash occurred at about 8:05 p.m. on Sunday and involved 18 people.
The vehicles were a white Toyota Hiace bus, registered EKY 290 YM, and a white Sinotruk truck operated by Dangote whose registration number was not reported. The FRSC counted 15 adult men, two adult women and one boy among the occupants. Nine men and the child died. Four men and both women were injured, while two men escaped without injury.
A preliminary FRSC assessment cited excessive speed, an unsafe overtaking attempt and dangerous driving as immediate factors. According to the agency's account, the truck driver had missed a turn and began reversing on the motorway, creating an obstruction. The approaching bus was travelling at high speed and tried to pass through the remaining space before striking the truck.
The road-safety corps did not present that initial sequence as a final investigative finding. The published account contained no statement from either driver or from other occupants, and it did not say whether the truck driver was among the dead, injured or unhurt. The precise speed of the bus and the visibility or road conditions at the time were also not reported.
FRSC rescuers took the six injured people to Victory Hospital in Ogere for treatment. The bodies of those killed were transferred to FOS Mortuary in Ipara. Officers from the Nigeria Police Force's Ishara division took custody of the damaged vehicles while arrangements were made to remove them from the crash site.
Ogun sector commander Oludare Ogunjobi expressed condolences to the victims' families and wished the injured a quick recovery. He urged commercial drivers and truck operators not to reverse on highways and warned against speeding, dangerous manoeuvres and other traffic violations. Drivers who miss a route should continue to a designated turning point rather than attempt to correct course in moving traffic, he said.
The casualty breakdown accounts for all 18 people listed by the FRSC: 10 dead, six hurt and two uninjured. It also makes the agency's reconstruction central to the report. Until any further police or technical findings, the supported explanation remains the FRSC's preliminary one—a reversing truck created a hazard and a fast-moving bus, while attempting to navigate around it, crashed into the vehicle. Police custody of the wrecked vehicles left open the possibility of a later, more detailed finding beyond the road-safety agency's first assessment.
