By Suleyman Dunoama Abuja
It was a black weekend in Imo State last Saturday as four persons, including a woman bus-driver were certified dead after a truck collided with a fully-loaded mini-bus along Akabo axis of ever busy Owerri -Okigwe express road in Imo state.
The truck whose driver was said to have escaped unhurt was reportedly set ablaze by angry mob around 9 pm of the faithful day
Mr. Jude Nwachukwu who’s an eyewitness told The Authority that the mini-bus driver who was a woman as well as three passengers died on the spot while others sustained various degrees of injuries, as they were taking to Federal Medical Center, Owerri where the corpses were certified dead and deposited in their morgue.
Nwachukwu who’s an indigene of Akabo community in Ikeduru Council Area of the State pointed out that the woman driver was trying to overtake the truck when it kissed the heavy duty truck from behind which forced it into the bush.
“The mini-bus was fully loaded and the woman driver, on trying to overtake the truck enroute Owerri, the car hit it from behind and tumbled into the bush.
“Two other vehicles were also affected by the rolling of the car but passengers in those vehicles did not sustain any injury.
“Four persons including the woman driver died instantly and others sustained severe injuries. One had his head severed off. The man is from Amatta in Ikeduru LGA.
“It was later at night that unidentified mob stormed the accident scene and set the truck on fire. It was terrible.”
He also revealed that the vehicles involved in the said accident were later tow by the police remaining the truck which was burnt to ashes.
