Transportation

Accident Reportedly Claims One In Abeokuta

By Web News 960

One person has reportedly died while another man sustained injury in a road crash involving a motorcycle and a sienna car along the Kobape – Kuto Abeokuta road. 

Eyewitnesses told Radio Nigeria that the motorcyclist conveying two passengers was coming out of Toolu village, opposite Paramount FM, and negotiating his way to link the expressway en route Kuto. 

One of the witnesses, Mr. Oye Adekunle explained that car, coming from Kobape axis of the road on a high speed lost control and rammed into the motorcycle. 

Mr. Adekunle who attributed the accident to excessive speeding by the car driver and recklessness on the part of the motorcyclist, maintained that the rider had made a sudden turn without proper checks.

Radio Nigeria observed that both the driver of the sienna car and the motorcycle rider were unharmed, while the surviving bike passenger had been rushed to the hospital by officials of the Ogun State Traffic Compliance and Enforcement Agency, TRACE, who also evacuated the remains of the pillion rider that reportedly died.

Francisca Irekpita

Crime

4 Feared Dead In Ogun Accident

By Web News 805

Four people have been presumed dead in fatal crash that occurred in Ijebu Ode-Oru road.

The accident involved a truck and a commercial bus.

Witness told journalists that the truck which was heading towards Ijebu-Ode from Ibadan axis lost control and collided with the bus that was coming in the opposite direction.

The witness claimed that driver and three passengers in the bus loaded with Kolanut died on the spot.

The spokesman of the State Traffic Compliance and Enforcement Agency, TRACE, Mr Babatunde Akinbiyi who confirmed the incident in a statement in Abeokuta said timely intervention of Police and Federal Road Safety Corps, FRSC officials prevented the angry mob from setting the truck ablaze.

Attributing the incident to reckless and dangerous driving on the part of the truck driver, Mr Akinbiyi said the body of the four victims had been deposited at the morgue of the Ijebu-Ode General Hospital while the injured truck driver was also receiving treatment at the same hospital.

Olusegun Folarin

Crime

Man Crushed to Death While Making Calls

By Web News 1666

A Mazda car loaded with crates of eggs has crushed a twenty-six-year-old man to death along Isiun-Abeokuta expressway.

Witness account reported that the accident occurred when the deceased was making calls while crossing the expressway.

The Ogun State Traffic Compliance and Enforcement Agency, TRACE, in a report said the deceased and his brother were travelling to Lagos from Abeokuta when their vehicle broke down.

According to the report, while other passengers were standing by the roadside waiting for the driver to repair the vehicle, the deceased was making calls on phone.

The corpse has been deposited at the morgue while the driver has been taken to police custody.

The driver of the car while speaking with newsmen shortly after Mr. Bolaji Balogun said the deceased rammed into the vehicle while on the expressway.

Wale Oluokun