No fewer than 46 persons lost their lives in crashes at the Ogun State end of the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway between January and September this year.
The spokesperson for the Traffic Compliance and Enforcement Corps, Babatunde Akinbiyi, disclosed this to journalists in Abeokuta on Tuesday.
Akinbiyi said there were 132 crashes on the road in the period.
He explained that the crashes involved 111 motor vehicles and 21 motorcycles, adding that they claimed the lives of 33 males and 13 females.
According to the TRACE spokesman, 196 persons were injured during the period under review, made up of 125 males and 71 females.
He said, “A total of 46.13 per cent of the accidents were caused by excessive speed; 22.58 per cent caused by dangerous driving; 10.68 per cent by bad tyres; 6.04 per cent by driving against the traffic flow; and 14.57 per cent by other factors.”