Six people, including a pregnant woman, were crushed to
death in an early morning accident in Ibadan on Monday.
The accident, involving a trailer, a Honda private car and a
Micra commercial vehicle, occurred at New Iyana Agbala junction along Ife/Ibadan
expressway.
According to an eyewitness, the articulated vehicle, coming
from Ile-Ife at a top speed, crushed the two vehicles, killing the six people
and injuring a number of others in the process.
It was alleged that the micra commercial car may have caused
the accident by wrongly parking in front of a popular Ore Ofe Oil filling
station to pick passengers.
Two of the dead victims were said to be in the Honda car,
three others were in the commercial car, while the pregnant woman was reportedly
hit to death was crossing the road at the time of the incident.
It was gathered that the offensive
articulated vehicle did not wait after it hit the motorists, who were all said
to have died on the spot.
Meanwhile, the Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC), Egbeda
unit Commander, Abiodun Akinlade, who confirmed the incident said only three victims
died while six others were wounded.
He added that the corpses of the dead victims had been
deposited at the morgue of a nearby Catholic Hospital, where the injured were
also being treated.
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