{"id":45724,"date":"2020-12-30T15:34:28","date_gmt":"2020-12-30T14:34:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nationalwire.com.ng\/?p=45724"},"modified":"2020-12-30T15:34:28","modified_gmt":"2020-12-30T14:34:28","slug":"killed-in-niger-road-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nationalwire.com.ng\/sub\/killed-in-niger-road-crash\/","title":{"rendered":"23 Killed In\u00a0 Niger\u00a0 Road\u00a0 Crash\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>No fewer\u00a0 than about 23\u00a0 people\u00a0 have been killed in a road crash in Masha village, along Makera-Mokwa road in Mashegu Local Government Area of Niger State,just as about 33 others sustained varying degrees of injuries.<\/p>\n<p>The Sector Commander of the Federal Road Safety Corps( FRSC)\u00a0 in the State, Mr. Joel Dagwa confirmed this to\u00a0 the newsmen in an interview by telephone late Monday evening, adding that the accident took place around the mid-day on\u00a0 Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Dagwa said the crash was a lone crash involving only a blue DAF trailer (95 Model) while\u00a0 he attributed the immediate\u00a0 cause of the crash, to speed limit violation and the loss of control of the vehicle by the truck driver.<\/p>\n<p>According to the FRSC&#8217;s Boss, the trailer driver\u00a0 took off from Kebbi State to Lagos loaded with cows,saying a &#8220;total number of 55 adult males were said to be in board of the trailer&#8221;<\/p><div data-ad-id=\"32665\" style=\"text-align:center; margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px;float:none;\" class=\"afw afw_ad_image afw_ad afwadid-32665  \">\r\n                                                            <div style=\"font-size:10px;text-align:center;color:#cccccc;\">Advertisement<\/div>\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.accessbankplc.com\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img decoding=\"async\" height=\"auto\" max-width=\"100%\" src=\"https:\/\/nationalwire.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Banner-1.jpg\"><\/a>\r\n                                                                        \r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<p>Joel Dagwa however stated that\u00a0 the surviving victims\u00a0 of the trailer accident were said to have been taken to the\u00a0 General Hospital,\u00a0 Mokwa for medical attention where 23 were certified dead.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Photo is a file copy<\/strong><\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No fewer\u00a0 than about 23\u00a0 people\u00a0 have been killed in a road crash in Masha village, along Makera-Mokwa road in Mashegu Local Government Area of Niger State,just as about 33 others sustained varying degrees of injuries.<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":11713,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[1115],"coauthors":[2391],"class_list":["post-45724","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-news","tag-road-accident"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v18.9 - 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