Section 88: Report of accidents

(1) When, in the working or construction of a railway, there occurs any of the following accidents, that is to say-
(a) any accident attended with loss of human life;
(b) any accident involving the movement of a locomotive or rolling stock and attended with serious injury to any person;
(c)
any accident of any other description, which the Minister may notify in that behalf in the Gazette, the Corporation shall, without unnecessary delay, send notice of the accident to the Inspector of Railways, and the railway servant in charge of that part of the railway on which the accident occurred shall, as soon as practicable after the occurrence of the accident, give notice of the accident to a police officer not below the rank of assistant superintendent of police and to such other officer, if any, as may be prescribed.
(2) If a railway servant who is required to give notice of an accident under the provisions of subsection (1) of this section, omits without reasonable excuse to do so, he shall be guilty of an offence and liable on conviction, to a fine not exceeding N20.