Barely 24 hours after a truck rammed right into a car and a pedestrian within the Lafenwa space of Ogun State killing 4 individuals and injuring two, one other truck has crushed two individuals to demise within the Papalanto space of the state.
The accident based on the spokesman for the Traffic Compliance and Enforcement Agency, Babatunde Akinbiyi, occurred within the early hours of Friday. Akinbiyi attributed the reason for the accident which concerned an Iveco Truck with quantity plate KJA 166 XJ and a Tricycle with quantity plate TRE 627 VP, to harmful driving by the truck driver. He added that 4 folks together with two males and two females have been concerned within the accident with the 2 females crushed to demise.
While narrating the accident, the TRACE spokesman added that the truck driver allegedly fled the scene after inflicting the harm.
He narrated, “According to an eyewitness account, the truck in an attempt to overtake the tricycle while both were in transit inbound Abeokuta, around Papalanto, dragged the tricycle along with it by the side in the process with the tricycle falling in its front before running over it, killing a grandmother and her granddaughter, who were the only occupants in the tricycle on the spot. “Regrettably, the truck driver escaped from the scene before being arrested.”
He added that the our bodies of the deceased have been handed over to their households whereas warning motorists in opposition to harmful driving.
“However, the bodies of the dead victims have been collected by the families of the victims while the injured tricycle driver has been rescued to an unknown hospital by a good samaritan. Moreover, the accident vehicles have been deposited at the Itori Divisional Police Command. “While TRACE and the Police commiserate with the families of the deceased, motorists are again charged to avoid dangerous and reckless driving given its attendant consequences,” Akinbiyi concluded.
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