A motorbike rider and his passenger have been killed on Friday morning when a automobile rammed into the motorbike at Bukuru Low-Cost Junction in Jos South Local Government Area of Plateau State.
A mob subsequently attacked the driver of the automobile, however his situation remained unclear as of the time of submitting this report.
Two eyewitnesses, Sharon Ibas and Tuwan Timothy, independently corroborated accounts of the crash, together with the collision between a Toyota Hiace bus, a Peugeot Boxer J5, and the motorbike.
Mr Ibas mentioned the accident occurred at about 9 a.m. as he travelled to Abuja in a Blue Whales Toyota Hiace bus.
He mentioned their driver stopped close to the junction, the place youths and vigilante personnel have been controlling site visitors throughout a funeral procession.
According to him, the Peugeot Boxer J5, approaching from behind, didn’t cease and rammed the bus’s rear.
Mr Ibas mentioned the Peugeot driver subsequently hit the motorbike, killing each rider and passenger on the scene.
“While our vehicle was approaching Bukuru, there was a procession of people carrying a corpse. Youths and vigilante members were stopping vehicles to control traffic. Our driver stopped, but the driver of the Peugeot Boxer refused to stop and hit our vehicle from behind,” he mentioned.
Mr Ibas mentioned youths on the scene descended on the Peugeot driver and beat him severely.
He added that safety personnel later arrived and rescued the driver, though he couldn’t verify whether or not the person survived the assault.
“The driver was lynched by angry youths. I am not sure if he survived the beating. Security officials arrived and rescued him,” he mentioned.
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He mentioned the mob additionally destroyed the Peugeot automobile.
Mr Timothy, the second eyewitness, additionally confirmed Mr Ibas’s account of the incident, offering further corroboration of the reported sequence of occasions.
When contacted, the spokesperson for the Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) in Plateau State, Yakubu Longsan, mentioned he had contacted the command’s Bukuru unit, whose officers advised him the accident had not been reported to them.
Mr Longsan suggested members of the general public to report highway crashes to the FRSC and phone the corps for updates on rescue operations and emergency response.
The incident comes days after a highway crash alongside Bukuru Express Road in Jos South killed a father and his son and injured seven others.
The FRSC attributed the crash to overspeeding and reckless driving.
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