It was a dark Sunday in Omi-Adio community along Ibadan-Abeokuta Road as 16 people were burnt beyond recognition in a ghastly motor accident.
Some of the victims, it was gathered, included students of the University of Agriculture , Abeokuta (UNAAB), market women and children.
Eyewitness accounts attributed the cause of the accident which involved two commercial Lite ace buses to bush-burning around the area which created thick smoke that prevented the drivers from seeing on-coming vehicles .
One of the buses was said to have loaded its passengers at Omi-Adio and was heading to Kila market in Odeda Local Government Area of Ogun State while the other commercial bus was said to be coming from Abeokuta with a full load of passengers.
The two buses it was learnt skidded off the road after a head -on collision, landed on the side of the road where there was a bush fire This caused the two buses to go up in flames with their occupants. The charred bodies of the victims littered the scene, while rescuers had a hectic time trying to help some of the survivors who included a three-year-old boy. Sympathizers who were at the scene of the accident wept profusely condemning those who set the bush on fire.
Men of the Federal Road Safety Commission (FRSC), and State Fire Service were seen at the scene of the accident battling to retrieve the burnt bodies from the wreckage of the buses.
The survivors of the accident were immediately rushed to the University College Hospital ( UCH) for proper medical assistance by some officials of the FRSC who later arrived at the scene. The charred remains of the victims were put in a long container made of wood before they were carried by a pick-up van belonging to the FRSC, to the mortuary.
Men of the State Fire Service who were also at the scene had hectic time putting out the fire from both sides of the road, a situation which caused heavy traffic. For two hours, fire fighters along with other people who volunteered to assist in the rescue operation tried to quench the fire but to no avail.
Some of the symphathisers at the scene of the accident called on the Federal Government to enact a law against bush-burning on the highway and enact stiffer penalty for offenders . A Police Inspector, Mr. Sesan Kayode from the Apata Police Division who later led a team of policemen to the accident spot about 30 minutes after incident said they received a distress call that some were trapped in buses that went up in flames
He said“ We received a distress call from some of the commercial motor drivers plying the route who witnessed the accident, informing us that some persons were trapped in the vehicles which went up in flames after the accident, while we were at a road block at Bakatari area of Ido Local Government area of the state.
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