Monday, August 19, 2024 -An angry mob set a vehicle ablaze following a fatal accident involving the vehicle and a motorcycle on Akarigbo Road, Sabo, Sagamu, Ogun State, on Sunday, August 18.
The state Police Command Public
Relations Officer, Omolola Odutola, said the incident occurred around 11:30
a.m. on Sunday when the driver of a Toyota vehicle with the number plate
LND125VD lost control and collided with a Bajaj motorcycle, number plate FFF450VH,
ridden by Friday Oni.
The force of the collision threw the
commercial motorcyclist and a pedestrian into an open drainage.
The vehicle’s driver fled the scene
afterwards.
The motorcyclist and the pedestrian
sustained varying degrees of injury.
The unidentified pedestrian was later
pronounced dead by a doctor at the hospital he was taken to.
Odutola said: "The driver of the
vehicle was reportedly heading towards Kara, Sabo, Sagamu when he collided with
the motorcycle rider, who simultaneously struck a pedestrian walking along the
road before falling into a gutter.
"The pedestrian and the
motorcycle rider, whose names are yet to be identified, were immediately rushed
to Olabisi Onabanjo University Teaching Hospital for medical attention.
Unfortunately, the pedestrian gave up the ghost at the hospital.
"The driver of the vehicle fled
from the scene of the accident, but his truck was set ablaze by the irate
youths, before the arrival of the policeman and other agencies who visited the
scene of the accident."
She added that the pedestrian’s body
had been removed and taken to the OOUTH morgue, while the remains of the
vehicle and the damaged motorcycle were recovered and transported to Sagamu for
safekeeping and inspection.
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