Motorcycles collide, kill two on New Year’s Eve

The North-bank area of Makurdi, Benue State was on Wednesday thrown into confusion when two commercial motorcycles collided on the expressway, leaving two persons dead. Eyewitnesses said one of the motorcycles had rammed into the other, which was making an illegal U-turn.

A few witnesses also said the accident was caused by the mad rush to catch up with preparations of the New Year celebration.

Men of the Federal Road Safety Corps and the Benue State Police Command were said to have arrived at the scene and conveyed the corpses of the victims to a nearby hospital in the North-bank area of the town.

The accident which was said to have occurred at about noon, destroyed the motorcycle and damaged the bodies of the accident victims.

It was gathered that as many people flooded the scene of the incident, traffic on the Makurdi-Lafia highway was abruptly disrupted.

The accident happened in the front of a Pentecostal church near a filling station.