Friday, August 23, 2024-A woman and her granddaughter were crushed to death by an Iveco truck in the Papalanto area of Ogun State on Friday.
The truck with registration number KJA166 XJ
was said to have overtaken a tricycle with registration number TRE 627 VP,
carrying the woman and her granddaughter.
Spokesman of the Ogun State Traffic
Compliance and Enforcement Agency, Babatunde Akinbiyi, who confirmed the
incident, said it happened in the early hours of Friday.
Akinbiyi attributed the cause of the
accident to dangerous driving by the truck driver, adding that he fled the
scene before being arrested.
He said, “Four people including two males
and two females were involved in the accident with the two females crushed to
death.
“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 stated that the bodies of the deceased
were handed over to their relatives while the injured tricycle driver was taken
to an unknown hospital by a good samaritan.
Akinbiyi charged motorists to avoid
dangerous and reckless driving given its attendant consequences.
The development comes barely 24 hours after
a truck rammed into a vehicle in Lafenwa area of the state, killing four
persons and injuring two.
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