Two nurses were confirmed dead on Sunday morning while 10 others sustained injuries in an accident involving a Toyota Hiace bus along Lagos- Abeokuta Highway.
The bus was said to be conveying nurses to a party in honour of a matron in one of the hospitals in Abeokuta when the crash occurred.
Spokesman of the Ogun State Traffic Compliance and Enforcement Corps ( TRACE) Mr Babatunde Akinbiyi confirmed the incident in an interview with reporters on Monday.
Akinbiyi noted that the driver of the Hiace bus was traveling on excessive speed and using his cellphone at the same time at a bend when he lost control of the vehicle resulting in several summersaults.
He said 18 people comprising one male and 17 female were involved in the accident adding that 2 nurses died while 10 others sustained injuries.
The spokesman explained that the injured were rushed to Hope Hospital ,Adigbe, Abeokuta, while the corpses were deposited at the morgue of General Hospital,Ijaye in Abeokuta.
