{"id":74671,"date":"2025-09-01T08:23:53","date_gmt":"2025-09-01T08:23:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=74671"},"modified":"2025-09-01T08:23:53","modified_gmt":"2025-09-01T08:23:53","slug":"one-killed-30-injured-in-multiple-crashes-on-abuja-lokoja-road","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/09\/01\/one-killed-30-injured-in-multiple-crashes-on-abuja-lokoja-road\/","title":{"rendered":"One Killed, 30 Injured in Multiple Crashes on Abuja-Lokoja Road"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Olokuta Rofiat<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>At least 30 people were injured and one person killed in two separate crashes along the Abuja-Lokoja highway, the Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC), has confirmed.<\/p>\n<p>The first accident occurred at about 5:47 a.m. near Awawa village and involved an 18-seater Toyota Hiace bus with registration number DKP 43 LG.<\/p>\n<p>The bus, which was conveying 18 passengers returning to Edo State after attending a Holiness Revival Worldwide event in Kwali, rammed into a heap of sand by the roadside.<\/p>\n<p>Eyewitnesses said the driver, unaware of the obstruction, lost control, leaving all 18 occupants injured. FRSC officials, who arrived swiftly at the scene, evacuated the victims to a nearby hospital for treatment.<\/p>\n<p>In a separate incident, a Golf car with registration number ASH 34 AA collided head-on with a Vento car (RBC 925 CN) that was driving against traffic from the Lokoja end as a result of ongoing road repairs. The crash left 12 people injured.<\/p>\n<p>Officials of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC), reportedly rescued the victims and conveyed them to the hospital before FRSC personnel arrived.<\/p>\n<p>The Abuja-Lokoja highway, one of the country\u2019s busiest transport corridors, remains notorious for frequent accidents often blamed on reckless driving, poor road maintenance, and ongoing construction works.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Olokuta Rofiat At least 30 people were injured and one person killed in two separate crashes along the Abuja-Lokoja highway, the Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC), has confirmed. The first accident occurred at about 5:47 a.m. near Awawa village and involved an 18-seater Toyota Hiace bus with registration number DKP 43 LG. The bus, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":74672,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74671","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\/74671","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=74671"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74671\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74673,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74671\/revisions\/74673"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/74672"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}