A truck has crushed three travellers to death and injured others in Obada, Abeokuta, the Ogun State capital.
Our correspondent gathered that the incident happened around 07.15am on Sunday around the Obada Police Station on the Lagos-Abeokuta Expressway.
The spokesperson for the Federal Road Safety Corps, Ogun State, Florence Okpe, said five male adults were involved in the crash.
She said, “Two persons sustained injuries and unfortunately, three persons were killed.”
She added that the accident involved a Volvo mini truck with no number plate and a Nissan taxi cab, marked AKM 489 ZY.
Okpe said, “The suspected cause of the crash was route violation on the part of the truck driver as it collided with the Nissan car.”
She said the injured victims were taken to a general hospital at Abeokuta for medical attention, while the bodies of the deceased were deposited at the hospital’s morgue.
The Ogun Sector Commander of the FRSC, Ahmed Umar, while commiserating with the families of the victims, advised motorists to avoid route violation.
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