At least, three persons have been confirmed dead, while two others are critically wounded in an accident which occurred yesterday along the Abeokuta-Sango Ota expressway in Ogun State.
The accident, which occurred around 7: 30a.m Ayedere axis of Obada Oko in the Ewekoro Local Government Area of the state involved a Volvo truck with registration number: AKM 489 ZY which had a head-on collision with an Abeokuta metropolitan painted taxi; a Nissan Micra marked AKM 232 YQ.
Our correspondent gathered that the driver of the Volvo truck, driving in a direction prohibited by the law, suddenly lost control of his vehicle while on high speed and collided with the taxi which resulted in the death of three of the five passengers on the Nissan Micra.
The public relations officer (PRO) of the state’s Traffic Compliant and Enforcement agency (TRACE), Babatunde Akinbiyi, who confirmed the accident, said one of the four passengers on the metro taxi was still in coma as of the time of filing this report, while the firth person sustained a high degree of injuries.
Akinbiyi further explained that the victims had been taken to the Federal Medical Centre (FMC) in Abeokuta, while the corpses had also been evacuated to the morgue of the same hospital.
The TRACE image maker further disclosed that an angry mob, who later stormed the scene of the crash in protest against the habitual acts of the truck drivers at driving against the traffic in the area, later set the Volvo truck ablaze, while the TRACE officials present were also attacked for daring to prevent them from vetting their anger on the truck drivers.
