FRSC identifies 3 things that led to minister's death

Former Minister of state for Labor and Employment, James Ocholi, his wife and son were involved in a Road Traffic Crash (RTC) on March 6th.

This car crash claimed the lives of the Ocholis.

This led to a Road Traffic Crash Investigation by the Federal Road Safety Commission (FRSC).

Yesterday (March 9th), the Corp Marshal,

According to Oyeyemi, the accident was caused by three things;

He added that the late minister and his family were killed because they were not using seat belts.

"There were 10 persons involved in the accident and 9 were adults. The minister and his son died on the spot, while his wife died at the hospital. The driver of the crashed vehicle was moving at excess of the stipulated speed when he had a tyre burst.

The investigation team gathered that the driver of the backup vehicle had noticed that the minister's vehicle rear left tyre was under-inflated, and availability of radio communication deprived him of access to the minister's driver.

There was no record on the driver's licence national database of the driver of the Hon. Minister with the name

The situation would have been salvaged if there had been a mode of communication between the minister's car and the backup car, as the latter had noticed the state of the tyres and tried to stop them.

Skid marks and grooves found on the westbound shoulder made by the Lexus LX570 for about 15m and 9.3m respectively before it began somersaulting severely and the ejection of the minister and his son showed clearly that the travelling speed of the Lexus LX570 presented unsafe consequences in the event of certain road risk that may have occurred.

The driver must have entered into a panic situation which resulted to his hard application of brakes and subsequent loss of control that took him into the bush path.

The Federal Road Safety Corps Investigation Team (FIT) determines that the probable cause of the March 6, 2016 fatal crash at KM34 Kaduna -Abuja expressway near Rijana village, Kaduna State, was the driver's failure to maintain directional control of his vehicle when the rear left tyre burst occurred," he read.