WHAT could have been a major disaster in Nigerian football was averted when two Nigerian  players Ekigho Ehiosun and Simone Zenke of  Turkish top flight  outfit Samsunspor football Club   were involed in a fatal motor accidents.

The duo, thus survived  a mega-disaster  after their team bus suffered a collision with a train as the vehicle passed over a crossroad. The crash occurred during Samsunspor’s bus ride home following a 2-1 loss at Kardemir Karabukspor.

Making the episode all the more frightening was the fact that the collision was recorded by a CCTV camera.

The images captured the moment the Samsunspor bus crossed over a roundabout onto a train crossroad seconds before an onrushing train slammed into the back of the bus.

Ehiosun,while reacting after the accident expesssed gratitude to God for surviving the accident saying “we survived through miracle and the grace of God because the accident occured when we were all asleep and anything could have happened but i thank God for been alive today,”he said.

Miraculously, no player was killed in the shocking crash, but only 23-year-old defender Hakan Arslan and 24-year-old midfielder Serdar Ozkan were injured in the accident.

Speaking to the press later, bus driver Recep Terzi explained “It was midnight. The ramps were up when I was about to cross. While slowly crossing, I realized a train was approaching and had its lights off. I immediately accelerated. After I stepped on the gas, the train hit the left back wheel of the bus and pushed us aside. If I had not seen the train at the last second, it would have hit the middle of the bus and that would have led to great damage and could have even cost many lives. The players awoke in panic; many later said they were lucky to have survived.”