Six People Reported Dead In Adamawa Crash

Six people have been reported dead following a road crash involving a Toyota Starlet cab and a Toyota Corolla car, Sunday afternoon, along the Yola-Mubi Road, Adamawa State.

Sources said it occurred on a section of the busy highway between the university town of Girei and neigbouring Jabbi-Lamba.

The Girei Unit Commander of the Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC), Kabir Bello on Monday said the accident was caused by over speeding at a bend a few meters to Jabbi-Lamba village.

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According to him, all five occupants of the Toyota starlet car died on the spot.

He said one person in the Corolla car similarly died while the driver sustained serious injury.

He said the accident occurred when the Starlet car, with young Mubi residents returning home after a business trip to the South East of Nigeria, veered off its path and rammed into the Corrola car.

In Adamawa State, Corolla Starlet cars are used extensively as inter-city transport vehicles, usually overloaded with four passengers on the back seat and two with the driver on the front seat.