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  • Four die, one injured in Ibadan road accident

    Four die, one injured in Ibadan road accident

    Four persons died yesterday in Ibadan, the Oyo State capital, in an accident at Uncle Joe on the Mokola-Sango Road.

    It was learnt that the survivor, a woman, is on danger list with a broken leg.

    The five victims, comprising three men and two women, were reportedly coming from a night club alongside others in two cars.

    Eyewitnesses said the three cars were speeding from Dugbe to Sango when a blue Toyota Corona, marked Lagos EKD 470BJ, lost control while trying to overtake the other cars at 5.15am.

    The car reportedly collided with a concrete wall in the middle of the road. Four of the victims -a woman and the three men- died on the spot.

    A source said some bottles of alcoholic wine were recovered from the car. It was gathered that it took Federal Road Safety Commission (FRSC) officials, policemen and other sympathisers an hour before the bodies could be recovered from the mutilated car.

    The State FRSC spokesperson, Oluwaseun Onijala, said three male adults died.

    He, however, said the lone accident occurred at 2am.

    Onijala said preliminary investigations have shown that the accident was as a result of speed limit violation and that the driver was driving under the influence.

  • Four die in 16 Yuletide auto crashes in Ekiti

    Four die in 16 Yuletide auto crashes in Ekiti

    The Ekiti State Sector Command of the Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) has confirmed the death of four people in 16 accidents during the Yuletide.

    The Sector Commander, Stanley Chinedum, who broke the news in Ado-Ekiti yesterday, said 11 people were injured and 114 others involved in the crashes in the period under review.

    Chinedum explained that one person died on December 19 at Omuo-Oke and three others at Aramoko.

    He said the latest figure was an improvement from that of the 2014 Yuletide period in which 20 persons died.

    Chinedum added that five people were jailed for seven days by its mobile court in Oye for disturbing the activities of FRSC officials in the area.

    He said 316 people were arrested for various traffic offences and tried by mobile courts in Ado, Ido, Oye and Omuo-Oke.

  • Four die in Akure road accident

    Four die in Akure road accident

    Four persons have been killed by a timber truck in Akure, the Ondo State capital.

    The driver, identified as Friday Ambrose, allegedly lost control of the vehicle on Ondo Road and hit three of the victims, who were on a motorbike, and a pedestrian.

    It was learnt that two of the victims of the Sunday evening accident, identified as a couple, were businessmen at the Oba Adesida market in Akure.

    Witnesses said the timber lorry was coming from Arakale and heading for one of the sawmills on the road, when it swerved off its lane and faced the opposite direction before hitting the victims.

    It was gathered that the victims died instantly.

    But the driver of the truck with registration number Lagos XN 968 AKD was unhurt.

    Police spokesman Wole Ogodo, who confirmed the incident, said only one person died in the accident.

    Ogodo explained that a victim he simply called Babatunde died at the State Specialist Hospital in Akure, where he was rushed to by sympathisers.

    He added that he had not been officially informed about the death of other victims.

    Ogodo said the driver had been arrested.

  • Four die in Oyo multiple road accidents

    For several hours yesterday, traffic was halted following multiple auto crashes that led to the death of four commuters on Lagos-Ibadan Expressway in Akinyele Local Government Area, Oyo State.

    Three different accidents occurred in close succession between 50 and 60 metres.

    It was gathered that the accidents occurred around 9am.

    Witnesses said an accident involving a petrol tanker happened first.

    The source added that the tanker driver lost control of the vehicle while trying to avoid a hitch.

    The petrol-laden tanker went up in flames.

    Also, a container-laden truck on its way to Oyo collided with a commercial bus while trying to avoid the burning tanker.

    Some occupants of the vehicles were said to have died. Others were badly injured.

    On the other side of the road, three commercial vehicles driving towards Ibadan also crashed, leaving some of the passengers badly injured.

    A witness, Kunle Alao, while commenting on the multiple accidents, said they occurred “like bomb explosions in a split-second”.

    “We heard the loud bang and ran away. Then another crash happened and then the third crash,” he said.

    Some officials of the Federal Road Safety Commission (FRSC) and policemen were deployed to the sites to rescue victims trapped in one of the damaged vehicles.

    Another tragedy struck in Ibadan yesterday as a tenant in a flat lost his possessions to an afternoon fire, which occurred on Ayetoro Street at Oke-Itunu, Ibadan.

    The flat, which is one of the four in the one-storey building, was completely razed, except for a Bible.

    Furniture, television set, a digital compact decoder, refrigerator, clothes, a laptop, and other valuables were burnt.

    It was gathered that the inferno, which started around 3pm, was prevented from spreading to the other flats through the combined efforts of the men of the state Fire Service and residents.

    Though the cause of the fire was unknown, some residents claimed it might be due to power surge.

    “It happened a few minutes after light was restored,” a resident told The Nation.

    The victim, who was visibly shaking and in his late 60s, could only answer: “I have lost everything I laboured for. I don’t know where to start again. We are just grateful that we did not lose anybody, except our properties.”