Four persons were confirmed dead, while two others sustained varying degrees of injuries in a fatal accident that occurred on Thursday night in Abeokuta, Ogun State capital.
The accident, which occurred around 9 p.m. at the Enu-Gada area of Lafenwa, in Abeokuta North Local Government, involved a Mack truck with registration number: (Lagos) AAA 86 XX, which rammed over a Honda CRV car marked: (Lagos) EKY 857 GU and two other commercial motorcycles with registration numbers: (Ogun) DE 968 VC and (Ogun) AAB 387 VP, respectively.
It was gathered that the granite-laden truck had developed a mechanical fault resulting in a brake failure while descending the Totoro slope, thereby forcing it to ram over the two commercial motorcycles before crashing on the Honda CRV.
The accident led to the instant death of the two motorcyclists and their pillion passengers, while the driver of the Honda CRV and a pedestrian sustained life-threatening injuries.
Confirming the accident in Abeokuta, Public Relations Officer of the state’s Traffic Compliance and Enforcement agency (TRACE), Babatunde Akinbiyi, explained that the injured victims were rescued by the TRACE operatives to a nearby hospital, while the corpses of the deceased have also been deposited at the morgue.
“Initially, 6 persons were presumed dead, including the injured Honda CRV driver and a pedestrian, but they were revived due to the efforts of the 1st responders and members of the public who gathered at the scene of the crash”.
“Unfortunately, the driver and the motor boy disappeared and were nowhere to be found by the time the truck stopped”.
(Vanguard)