18 passengers escape death as 200 cows overrun Owo-Benin Expressway

18 passengers escape death as 200 cows overrun Owo-Benin Expressway

- Eighteen passengers have escaped death by
whiskers along Owo-Benin Expressway.

- The passengers were travelling in bus when some cows ran across the road.

- Two of the cows were hit in the process despite the driver's effort to avoid them.

Some passengers escaped death along the Owo-Benin Expressway over the
weekend.

Our Correspondent reports that 18 passnegers
escaped death by whiskers when about 200 cows took to the highway in Ondo
state.

Many of the passengers were said that have been left with various degrees of
injuries after the cows ran across the expressway.

An eyewitness said the drivers of the
commercial bus marked KPA 77LG did all he could to avoid the cows but two of them hit the vehicle.

He said immediately the incident happened the herder said something to
the other cows and they all escaped.

"Despite efforts by the driver to avoid the
cows, two of them hit the bus.

Immediately the accident happened, the herdsmen spoke to the other cows and they escaped into the bush," the eyewitness said.

While a dead cow was seen lying on the accident scene, the wounded passengers were rushed to a nearby hospital for
medical attention.

“We were just saved by grace from the hands of these wicked herdsmen. It all happened with lightning speed. It was God who actually took control of the
situation," one of the victims, Grace Ajayi.