Onlookers stared paralysed with horror, trepidation, and uncertainty as the man tumbled in the air, his keke keys fallin off, in flight before he finally hit the hard asphalt with a thudd sound.. Minutes latter he got sorrounded by the trong of people, whom, with him inclusive had gathered 5minutes earlier at the scene of the first accident.
He was bundled up ASAP into a vehicle and taken to the hospital, where he gave up the ghost...

Edet Akpan Avenue (fourlane) happens to be the only road in Uyo, where posh cars, power bikes, and some #fast_and_furious keke drivers experiment how fast their vehicle can go, fulling their speedometers in their #need_for_speed
One of the lanes, however happened to have been in a state of disrepair, particularly the road by #edem_akai_street, courtesy of the activities of a carwash, and a borehole water selling stand, both of whose uncontrolled water had eroded the lanes asphalt and duged up a trench where before stood a smoth road, leading to commuters leaving the normal lane for the speed lane,.

Today however was a horrible day, that resulted, in 2 separate accident, in the spans of 5minutes apart, same place, an account by an eye witness is that,
The first accident occurred when a keke man while slowing down to descend, before accending out of the trench got knocked off the road by a speeding Mercedes benz, the force was such that my neighbour here by newbirth avenue, blocks away, was shaken from sleep by the sound of the shere impact,

The keke ended up in the gutter, the woman passenger inside luckily was almost unscratched as she got rescued out by onlookers drawn from far and wide by the screeching of the Mercedes, as an attempt at break and the ensuing impact, the kekeman was however not so lucky, but not in a hopeless situation though. The mercedea driver however escaped according to my neigbour.

As customary, keke drivers packed up and gathered en masse asking, recounting and discussing the accident, with the abysmal state of the road and the speed of the Mercedes the subject. The packed keke, and the throng of people, cloged up the road setting up the scene for the next accident.

A Prado jeep, probably coming from Eni stores,( from the fact that the driver, according to unlooKers, was eating rice while on wheels, and somewhat exhibited some drunken character)
The driver came speeding, unmindful of the throng of people, one thing led to another and kpongg, he hit one keke that was parked by one of the onlookers, leaving the vehicle flying high in the air before crashing to the gutter, the Prado from the speed and ensuing force of impact of the crash also took into the air, sailing overhead one old man before hitting the victim who was trying to run, leaving the unfortunate man flying some yards before crashing his head on the asphalt, leaving a pool of blood in the wake.
The scene was so traumatic as onlookers couldn't hold back tears seeing the man lying there in the pool of his own blood, unconscious, while his heaving heartbeat was all to show signs of life.
However, the driver seeing the throng who were sourcing for weapons with which they beat both the vehicle and its driver to smithereens, quickly bolted.

while the woman from the first accident would ve giving testimony in church, the keke driver would be somewhere receiving treatment, however, the family of the deceased would be there crying all night, mourning a son, a brother, father and friend... Whose life was all it would take for the government to remember its #zeropothole_policy.

May your soul rest in peace, and may God grant your family to bear this great loss... #valarMorghulis #goodnite.

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