FOUR persons were yesterday killed in
an auto crash, which occurred in front
of the Ogun State Governor’s office,
Oke-Mosan, Abeokuta. The mangled bodies of the victims
were trapped in the damaged car and
sympathisers had to use axe to cut the
car into pieces to enable them remove
the bodies.
The accident involved a Toyota Tundra Sport Utility Vehicle (SUV) marked,
Lagos: FC 787LND and Nissan Primeria
car with registration number FZ 914
LSR.
The SUV, said to have been coming
from Sagamu end of the road on speed was reported to have crossed
the median and hit the car which had
six occupants on the other side of the
road.
The Guardian gathered at the scene of
the accident that the driver of the SUV was receiving a telephone call while
on top speed, when he suddenly
approached the speed breaker in
front of the Governor’s office, resulting
in the accident.
According to an eyewitness “the driver of the SUV was receiving a
phone call while on speed, so when
he got to the speed breaker he
suddenly applied the brake and in the
process lost control of the vehicle,
which crossed to the other side of the road and hit the other car.” The Ogun State Rescued Team of the
Nigeria Security and Civil Defence
Corps (NSCDS), officials of the Federal
Road Safety Commission (FRSC) and
the Ogun State Traffic Compliance and
Enforcement Agency (TRACE) who raced to the accident scene took those
who sustained injuries to the Federal
Medical Centre and deposited the dead
bodies in the morgue. The TRACE team leader at the scene,
Mr. Oladele Badmos, said information
at his disposal indicated the driver of
the SUV caused the accident,
confirming that the driver was
receiving a telephone while driving..
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