OGUN: Truck crushes nursing mother to death, injures 2 others

Tragedy struck at the Siun axis along Siun-Sagamu-Abeokuta Expressway in Ogun State when a Mercedes Actros truck with number plate PKP 464 XA crushed a nursing mother to death and injured two others.

Confirming the incident, Babatunde Akinbiyi of the Ogun State Traffic Compliance and Enforcement Corps, said the accident was caused by the over speeding driver.

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“The information gathered by our operatives at the scene of the accident indicated that the driver of the truck was speeding. After it crushed the woman, the truck hit two men who sustained injuries,” Akinbiyi said.

He said the driver after coming to terms with his action took to his heels immediately after the crash, while the deceased’s remains were handed over to her family because doctors at the Olabisi Onabanjo University Teaching Hospital, Sagamu, were on strike.

 

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