The accident involved a car and a stationary truck around
Honda area on Ota-Idiroko Road, Thursday night.
The Ogun Command of the Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC)
said that five people were killed in an accident that involved a car and a
stationary truck around Honda area on Ota-Idiroko Road on Thursday night.
The State Sector Commander of FRSC, Ahmed Umar, who
confirmed the accident to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Friday in Ota,
said that two other people sustained injuries.
Mr Umar said the accident, which involved a Toyota Camry
car with registration number APP 583G and a truck, which had no plate number,
happened at about 11.45 p.m. due to alleged excessive speeding and dangerous
driving on the part of the driver of the car.
The sector commander said the car lost control due to
alleged excessive speeding and rammed into the stationary truck. This led to
the death of five people, three male and two female.
He added that two other people sustained injuries in the
accident that involved seven people.
“The corpses have been deposited at the morgue of Ota
General Hospital while the survivors are receiving treatment at Craft Hospital,
Ota, he said.
Mr Umar described the crash as avoidable and advised
motorists to avoid excessive speed and dangerous driving and to obey traffic
regulations to prevent unnecessary loss of lives.
He commiserated with the families of the dead and prayed
God to grant them the fortitude to bear the irreplaceable losses.
The sector commander called on them to contact the FRSC
Command in Ota for details of the crash and to reclaim the property of the
victims recovered from the accident scene.
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