An auto crash along Bauchi to Dass road in Bauchi state on Saturday claimed four lives , reports the News Agency of Nigeria .
The crash , which occurred in Bayara town , a community few kilometres from Bauchi metropolis, also left eight other persons with injuries .
The state Public Relations Officer of the Federal Road Safety Corps, Mr Rilwanu Sulaiman , told NAN that two vehicles involved in the accident, a Ford Sharon and a Lexus jeep , had collided head -on .
He said that the two vehicles were conveying a total of 12 people when the crash occurred.
“ Three persons died instantly and another person died on the way to the hospital .
“ The wounded , eight in number, are currently receiving treatment at Abubakar Tafawa-Balewa University Teaching Hospital in the state capital, ” he told NAN .
(NAN )