Edo State Sector Command of the Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) yesterday affirmed that at the very least 53 people kicked the bucket in a numerous mischance that happened on Thursday evening at Abudu Bridge, along Benin/Agbor Road, in Orhionmwon Local Council of the state.
The Guardian assembled that a bullion van was likewise required in the crash, yet it was not clear whether there was cash in the van.
The numerous accidents was said to have happened when a tanker weighed down with petroleum item smashed into the bullion van, which was said to have created blame and was being settled by the street.
The inhabitants of the van were said to redirect movement when the tanker kept running into them, with alternate vehicles driving behind additionally stalling out.
Representative of the Command, George Otoaviokhai, who gave the affirmation in an instant message to columnists in Benin, said five people additionally maintained fluctuating degrees of wounds.
In the instant messages, titled, 'FRSC information on Abudu car collision,' Otoaviokhai said eight vehicles-two transports, one Sienna, one Dyna truck, one tanker, one Ford transport, one Toyota Corolla and one bike were included in the mischance he credited to brake disappointment.
"Every one of those in the two transports, Sienna and Corolla, blazed to fiery debris and one dead individual taken to funeral home," he said, including that every one of the vehicles included have been cleared from the roadway, while wellbeing officers from Orhionmwon Local Council were welcome to give mass internment to the dead.
Otoaviokhai clarified: "The bullion van really separated and they were attempting to settle it. They redirected activity. It was redirecting movement that the tanker smashed into alternate vehicles.
"It was not as though it was the bullion van that was influenced; it separated and it was settled.
"It was not a head-on impact. The vehicles were originating from Agbor into Benin. The tanker smashed into stopped vehicles. The tanker was stacked and there was an ignition."
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