Kano crash kills three, FRSC identifies DAF truck
The Federal Road Safety Corps confirmed three people died in a road crash on the Zaria-Kano expressway after the Imawa U-turn when a DAF XF commercial vehicle with registration FKA 603 XA lost control and collided with a parked trailer. Local accounts in Imawa town said the truck was loaded with lemons, and the injured were taken to Kura General Hospital where the three were pronounced dead, raising fresh warnings about roadside parking and early-hour driving in kano.
Imawa town crash scene
An eyewitness, Zailani Umar Imawa, said residents rushed to the scene after hearing a loud impact when the lemon-laden truck struck a trailer that had been parked by the roadside after developing a mechanical fault. Two occupants of the truck were described as barely able to move and a third was heard calling for help before emergency responders arrived; FRSC operatives later evacuated the victims to hospital. The pattern suggests roadside stoppages for vehicle faults in Imawa, Kura Local Government Area, create acute hazards when traffic control and visibility are limited.
FRSC response and findings
The Federal Road Safety Corps confirmed it received a call at 5: 55 am ET and deployed a rescue team that reached the scene at 6: 01 am ET, recording a six-minute response time. A preliminary investigation by the sector commander, Idris Mohammed-Lawal, found the incident was a lone crash caused by loss of control, resulting in the deaths of three adult males whose corpses were deposited at Kura General Hospital. The figures point to a rapid operational response but also to the severity of the impact, indicating that high-energy collisions can be unsurvivable even when aid arrives within minutes.
DAF XF truck identification
FRSC investigators identified the vehicle involved as a DAF XF truck with registration number FKA 603 XA; the agency described it as a commercial vehicle that lost control and struck the parked trailer. Local reporting added that the truck was carrying lemons, but ownership details of the truck and the trailer remain unconfirmed. The sector commander’s subsequent public advice stressing safe speed, proper vehicle control, avoidance of fatigue and the dangers of indiscriminate highway parking ties directly to those specific findings and to the registration detail for follow-up enforcement or investigation.
For now, the identities of the victims and the truck’s ownership remain unconfirmed, and those are the specific open questions left by the coverage. If the ownership and maintenance records of FKA 603 XA are released, the data suggests investigators will be better positioned to determine whether mechanical failure, driver fatigue or other factors were primary contributors to the loss of control that killed three people.
