{"id":62479,"date":"2025-03-10T09:37:04","date_gmt":"2025-03-10T09:37:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=62479"},"modified":"2025-03-10T09:37:04","modified_gmt":"2025-03-10T09:37:04","slug":"four-killed-nine-injured-in-lagos-ibadan-expressway-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/03\/10\/four-killed-nine-injured-in-lagos-ibadan-expressway-crash\/","title":{"rendered":"Four Killed, Nine Injured in Lagos-Ibadan Expressway Crash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Adenike Lawal<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Tragedy struck on Sunday night along the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway, as an accident in the Alapako area of Obafemi Owode Local Government, Ogun State, claimed four lives and left nine others injured.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Ogun State Police Command, the accident involved a Toyota Hiace bus (FKJ 570 YE), which lost control due to a tyre blowout.<\/p>\n<p>The crash resulted in the instant deaths of the driver and three passengers, while nine survivors were rushed to Victory Hospital, Ogere, for treatment.<\/p>\n<p>The impact left the bus severely damaged, prompting swift intervention by the police, who managed traffic flow and documented the scene.<\/p>\n<p>In the wake of the tragedy, the police have reiterated calls for regular vehicle maintenance and strict adherence to traffic safety regulations to prevent further loss of lives on Nigeria\u2019s highways.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Adenike Lawal Tragedy struck on Sunday night along the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway, as an accident in the Alapako area of Obafemi Owode Local Government, Ogun State, claimed four lives and left nine others injured. According to the Ogun State Police Command, the accident involved a Toyota Hiace bus (FKJ 570 YE), which lost control due [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":62480,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62479","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62479","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62479"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62479\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62481,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62479\/revisions\/62481"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/62480"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}