Eight individuals lost their lives on Tuesday in Ondo State following a fatal mishap that happened at Bagbe axis of Ondo West Local Government Area of the state

Five people also sustained differing degrees of injuries in the fatal vehicle crash.

The mishap was said to have included an 18-passenger Toyota Hiace bus with registration number ARC 616 XA and a truck which had no registration number.

According to sources, the accident happened while the passenger bus was attempting to overtake another automobile and collided with the truck coming from the other end of the roadway.

Following the accident, there was rush hour snarl for several hours, which took the intervention of the guys of the Ondo Sector Command of the Federal Road Safety Corps, FRSC, and the cops from tbe area to reduce the logjam on the busy road.

Speaking on the condition of anonymity, an authorities of the FRSC, who belonged to the evacuation group at the accident scene, preserved that the accident occurred as an outcome of speed limit infraction in addition to harmful surpassing on the part of the automobiles.

According to the FRSC operative, the bodies of those who died in the crash had actually been deposited at the morgue while those who sustained injuries were required to Trauma Center, Ondo town for treatment.

When gotten in touch with, the representative of the police command in the state, Funmilayo Odunlami, who verified the incident, likewise attributed the mishap to hazardous overtaking.