Two die, four injured in Ogun road crash

At least two persons lost their lives while four others were injured on Saturday night in a motor accident that occurred at Wasinmi end of the Lagos/Abeokuta Expressway in Ogun State.

The accident involved a Nissan saloon car with registration number, Lagos SZ 171 AAA and an IVECO truck marked Ogun SRA 546 XA.

It was gathered that the occupants of the car were on their way back to Lagos from Ilaro in Yewa South Local Government area of Ogun State where they had gone for a party.

According to eye witnesses account, the woman driving the car lost control when the granite-laden truck coming behind hooted to pave way for its passage on the double carriage road.

It was further gathered that the truck, while trying to manoeuvre, hit the road median and fell on the car, pouring all its content on the highway.

Our correspondent, who was at the scene observed that no part of the car was visible, but the victims’ hands were seen waving through the granite.

It took the intervention of the entourage of the Speaker of Ogun State House of Assembly, Suraj Isola Adekunbi, and newly promoted Assistant Inspector General of Police in charge of Zone 2, Abdulmajid Ali, which got to the scene immediately to rescue some of the victims.

Also involved in the rescue was a former Chairman of Abeokuta North Local Government, Abeeb Ajayi.

Both Adekunbi and Ali immediately drafted the men of the Traffic Compliance and Enforcement Agency, (TRACE) and Federal Road Safety Corps, FRSC to the scene.

After fruitless efforts by hundreds of sympathisers to rescue the trapped victims, a passing truck with registration number, Lagos, EPE 231 XJ was later used to pull the truck off the car.

Four female occupants were miraculously pulled out of the damaged car with two of them rushed to Federal Medical Centre, Idi-Aba, Abeokuta while others were rushed to the Ifo General Hospital.

The remains of the two deceased were also removed from the vehicle and taken to the morgue of Ifo General Hospital.

Both the Sector Commander of FRSC, Adegoke Adetunji and the Public Relations Officer (PRO) of TRACE, Babatunde Akinbiyi blamed the accident on over speeding on the part of the drivers.

The FRSC boss, however, implored motorists to always apply ‘common sense’ speed limit and to desist from using ‘Tokunbo tyres.’

He said, “My advice to motorists is to obey speed limit, go with ‘common sense’ speed limit. If they know the weather is not conducive, they shouldn’t be in a hurry, they should obey speed limit and have consideration for other road users and also desist from using Tokunbo tyres.

“I don’t want to link the incident to the weather but this is a rainy season and the road is always wet, the tyres will not have enough grip on the road like when the road is dry.”