A National Youth Service (NYSC) Member, Nwadike Chioma, gave her personal account of the accident. Read below:
“GRATEFUL HEART
please join me and thank the Lord for sparing my life
and that of others, in the pictures below is an accident I was involved
in enroute Kogi-Abuja Expressway. The trailer bearing a container
failed break few minutes away from the bridge, our driver noticed it and
increased his speed in other to avoid the trailer, but unfortunately
the trailer was at a more higher speed, getting to the top of the bridge
it rammed into our bus and a smaller car in front…hitting it twice
and pushing it towards the edge, I was seated at the front ooo…the
front side of the bus was compressed, I thought i’ve lost my legs, I
pulled and pulled my legs and it came out….i jumped to the back and
jumped out through the broken window(how i did that without any
assistance still beats me), thank God too the container it was carrying
didn’t fall on the bus, that would have been it, we were whiskers away
from the river, another hit by the trailer would have sent the bus
tumbling inside the river but God said no, Mercy said NO, I was saved,
unscratched, I was just crying when I looked at how close we were to
death, road safety officials rushed down with some other life savers,
they were fully on ground to pack bodies but were surprised that there
was not even a single one, ‘Corper stop crying and thank God ooo’ they
said, though still in shock and traumatised am more amazed how much God
loves me, to Him be all the glory forever more in Jesus name. Amen!”