{"id":23081,"date":"2020-03-26T15:59:15","date_gmt":"2020-03-26T15:59:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.com\/nigeria\/?p=23081"},"modified":"2020-03-26T15:59:15","modified_gmt":"2020-03-26T15:59:15","slug":"five-vehicles-crash-at-river-niger-bridge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/five-vehicles-crash-at-river-niger-bridge","title":{"rendered":"Five vehicles crash at River Niger bridge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Five vehicles on Thursday collided at the River Niger bridge, Onitsha, Anambra State.<\/p>\n<p>The accident, which occurred around 10.40am, involved a Toyota Sienna, Hilux, Hiace, Nissan Primera and a tricycle with a total of fourteen passengers on board.<\/p>\n<p>The Nation gathered that the driver of the Sienna car rammed into the Nissan Primera after it lost control, hitting the Hiace bus, the Hillux and the tricycle respectively.<\/p>\n<p>River Niger bridge latest accident<\/p>\n<p>An eye witness said some of the passengers sustained varying degrees of injury, while the primera was badly damaged.<\/p>\n<p>Confirming the incident, State Sector Public Education Officer, Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC), Pascal Anigbo said a total of 14 persons were involved in the crash, but said no death was recorded.<\/p>\n<p>He said, \u201cThe crash occurred after the brakes of the Toyota Sienna with registration number AKD960XY failed.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-23082\" src=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2020\/03\/IMG-20200326-WA0098.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"540\" height=\"405\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2020\/03\/IMG-20200326-WA0098.jpg 540w, https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2020\/03\/IMG-20200326-WA0098-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2020\/03\/IMG-20200326-WA0098-80x60.jpg 80w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Five vehicles on Thursday collided at the River Niger bridge, Onitsha, Anambra State. The accident, which occurred around 10.40am, involved a Toyota Sienna, Hilux, Hiace, Nissan Primera and a tricycle with a total of fourteen passengers on board. The Nation gathered that the driver of the Sienna car rammed into the Nissan Primera after it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":23083,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,20],"tags":[137,359],"class_list":["post-23081","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-photo","tag-anambra-police","tag-photos"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Five vehicles crash at River Niger bridge - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Five vehicles on Thursday collided at the River Niger bridge, Onitsha, Anambra State.The accident, which occurred around 10.40am\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/five-vehicles-crash-at-river-niger-bridge\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Five vehicles crash at River Niger bridge\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Five vehicles on Thursday collided at the River Niger bridge, Onitsha, Anambra State.The accident, which occurred around 10.40am\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/five-vehicles-crash-at-river-niger-bridge\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2020-03-26T15:59:15+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2020\/03\/IMG-20200326-WA0097-540x375-1.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"540\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"375\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"alico\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"alico\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/five-vehicles-crash-at-river-niger-bridge#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/five-vehicles-crash-at-river-niger-bridge\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"alico\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/50afd2ef4f0e900bd0a176404a8484a7\"},\"headline\":\"Five vehicles crash at River Niger bridge\",\"datePublished\":\"2020-03-26T15:59:15+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/five-vehicles-crash-at-river-niger-bridge\"},\"wordCount\":147,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/five-vehicles-crash-at-river-niger-bridge#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2020\/03\/IMG-20200326-WA0097-540x375-1.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Anambra police\",\"photos\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"Photo\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/five-vehicles-crash-at-river-niger-bridge#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/five-vehicles-crash-at-river-niger-bridge\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/five-vehicles-crash-at-river-niger-bridge\",\"name\":\"Five vehicles crash at River Niger bridge - 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