So sad! 9 die in Calabar road accident

CALABAR—AXES and machetes were deployed yesterday to extricate the
mangled bodies of nine commuters crushed by a speeding diesel truck which
lost control and crashed into a Port Harcourt-bound bus at New Netim, along
Calabar-Uyo highway.
Mr Ikechukwu  Lawrence Igwe, the Sector Commander, Federal Road Safety
Corps for Cross River State, said driver of the diesel truck caused the accident
because he was over speeding and attempted to overtake  another truck on a
bend and suddenly  came head-on with the bus , after losing control of the
vehicle.
"From every indication, the accident was caused by the driver of the truck
because he was over speeding, while trying to overtake another truck on a
bend and when he came head- on with the bus, he lost control and rammed
into it killing seven people and leaving seven others critically wounded," he
said.
Igwe said the bus driver made spirited effort to avoid the truck by driving into
the bush, adding that the truck still followed bus and rammed into it.
He said immediately the accident happened, a former staff of the Corps called
the attention of the command, while men were dispatched to the scene of the
accident where seven mangled bodies  were extricated from the wrecked bus.
He seven others in a critical condition were taken to the General Hospital,
Calabar, for medical attention.
Igwe said the bus  with the inscription, To and Fro, belongs to a popular
transport firm, Calculux, while the owner of the  diesel truck was yet to be
identified as the driver escaped into the bush after the accident.
"We have informed the police and they are already on his trail to get him
arrested so that he can stand prosecution," he said
When Vanguard visited the General Hospital where the corpses and the
wounded victims were taken, a source said two more persons had died.