{"id":80100,"date":"2025-12-11T18:05:06","date_gmt":"2025-12-11T18:05:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=80100"},"modified":"2025-12-11T18:05:06","modified_gmt":"2025-12-11T18:05:06","slug":"eight-unijos-students-die-in-fatal-crash-on-zaria-road","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/12\/11\/eight-unijos-students-die-in-fatal-crash-on-zaria-road\/","title":{"rendered":"Eight UNIJOS Students Die in Fatal Crash on Zaria Road"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Huldah Shado<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Eight students of the University of Jos were killed early Thursday in a fatal crash involving a trailer and a bus on Zaria Road, opposite Unity Bank, Jos, Plateau State.<\/p>\n<p>The bus, which had 11 male occupants, reportedly crashed while attempting a wrongful overtaking at high speed, causing the driver to lose control before colliding with an oncoming trailer.<\/p>\n<p>Seven students died on the spot, while one later died in the hospital. Three others are receiving treatment.<\/p>\n<p>FRSC Public Education Officer, Peter Longsan, confirmed the incident, saying the corps received a distress call at about 2:30 a.m. and arrived to find multiple casualties.<\/p>\n<p>Sector Commander, Olajide Mogaji, cautioned motorists, especially commercial drivers against night travel, speeding, dangerous overtaking, and driving under fatigue, noting that such behaviours remain leading causes of fatal crashes.<\/p>\n<p>He urged road users to report emergencies via the FRSC toll-free line, 122.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Huldah Shado Eight students of the University of Jos were killed early Thursday in a fatal crash involving a trailer and a bus on Zaria Road, opposite Unity Bank, Jos, Plateau State. The bus, which had 11 male occupants, reportedly crashed while attempting a wrongful overtaking at high speed, causing the driver to lose [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":80101,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-80100","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\/80100","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\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80100"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80100\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":80102,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80100\/revisions\/80102"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/80101"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}