Multiple Auto Crash Claims 13 Lives on Asaba-OgwashiUku Road

No fewer than 13 persons including an Anglican Priest, lost their lives in a fatal accident which occurred on Thursday at Ibusa on the Asaba-Ibusa-Ogwashi Uku Road in Delta State. on Thursday has left 13 persons including an .

The dead priest was identified as Rev. Stanley Ejiniwe, said to be a popular figure in the Asaba Diocese of the Church of Nigeria (Anglican Communion), which has been thrown into mourning.

However, four survivors of the crash are receiving treatment at St. Joseph Catholic Hospital and St. Rebecca Hospital both in Asaba, the state capital, while the dead made up of 11 males and two females were deposited at the General Hospital morgue, Ibusa.

The accident occurred on the deplorable sloppy portion of the road leading into Ibusa area about 200 meters from the military checkpoint from Asaba the Asaba end.

The vehicles involved include a black Ford Bus, marked GWK 684 XA belonging to Christ Anglican Church, Ibusa, a Mitsubishi L300 with a Lagos registration number BJ 831 AKD, a commercial bus painted in Delta State colours as well as a Honda car numbered BEN 413 CF.

Eyewitness accounts said that the driver of the commercial bus and his wife reportedly died in the crash, adding that the cleric who was recently transferred to Christ Anglican Church, Ibusa, was alone in the Ford bus belonging to his parish.

The eye witness further said the priest was descending the hills from Ibusa end while the fully loaded commercial bus was ascending before a head on collision.