6 Die, 4 Injured In Ogun Car Crash

FRSC
Car crash File

By Ige Olugbenga

The Federal Road Safety Commission (FRSC) in Ogun, said six persons died while four were injured in an accident on the Lagos-Sagamu expressway on Monday.

The Ogun Sector Commander of the FRSC, Clement Oladele, in Ota, Ogun, said the accident occurred at about  2. 12 pm.

Oladele said that a Nissan Quest van with registration number FKJ 297 AJ coming from Ikorodu to Ibadan rammed into a moving Iveco truck due to excessive speed.

The crash, he said, resulted in the death of the six persons while four sustained injuries.

“ The four injured  persons are receiving  treatment at the Sagamu General Hospital while the corpses had been deposited at the morgue, ” he said.

He  advised motorists to desist from excessive speed, especially during the rainy season.

The Public Relations Officer, Ogun State Traffic Compliance and Enforcement Corps, Babatunde Akinbiyi, also said the driver of the commercial vehicle was speeding and that the car rammed into a moving Iveco truck with number plate LND 902 XE.

All the passengers in the Nissan Quest died, Akinbiyi said.

He said, “The accident was caused by speeding by the driver of the Nissan Quest commercial vehicle, who rammed his car into a moving Iveco truck from behind, killing all the occupants.

“I could not say where the vehicle was travelling to, but it was coming from Lagos.”

Akinbiyi said the corpses of the victims had been deposited at the mortuary of Olabisi Onabanjo University Teaching Hospital, Sagamu, Ogun State.

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