Less than 24 hours after a truck collided with a vehicle and a pedestrian in Ogun State’s Lafenwa area, resulting in four fatalities and two injuries, another tragic accident occurred in the Papalanto area of the state.
This incident involved a truck that claimed the lives of two individuals.
According to The PUNCH, the spokesman for the Traffic Compliance and Enforcement Agency, Babatunde Akinbiyi, reported that the accident took place in the early hours of Friday.
The collision involved an Iveco Truck with the registration number KJA 166 XJ and a Tricycle bearing the number plate TRE 627 VP. Akinbiyi attributed the accident to dangerous driving on the part of the truck driver.
He further noted that four people—two men and two women—were involved in the crash, with the two female passengers being fatally injured.
Akinbiyi explained that the truck driver fled the scene after the accident.
“According to an eyewitness account, the truck, in an attempt to overtake the tricycle while both were in transit inbound Abeokuta, around Papalanto, dragged the tricycle along with it by the side in the process with the tricycle falling in its front before running over it, killing a grandmother and her granddaughter, who were the only occupants in the tricycle on the spot. Regrettably, the truck driver escaped from the scene before being arrested,” he explained.
The spokesman also mentioned that the families of the deceased had taken custody of the bodies and issued a warning to motorists about the dangers of reckless driving.
“However, the bodies of the dead victims have been collected by the families of the victims while the injured tricycle driver has been rescued to an unknown hospital by a good samaritan. Moreover, the accident vehicles have been deposited at the Itori Divisional Police Command. While TRACE and the Police commiserate with the families of the deceased, motorists are again charged to avoid dangerous and reckless driving given its attendant consequences,” Akinbiyi concluded.
