UPDATE: TRUCK CRUSHES FIVE PEOPLE TO DEATH IN OGUN
On Tuesday evening, a truck on the Epe/Ijebu-Ode Expressway in Ogun State crushed five people to death.
According to Babatunde Akinbiyi, a spokesperson for the Traffic Compliance and Enforcement Agency, the collision was the result of extreme overspeeding on the part of an empty white Mack truck with no registration number.
“An empty Mack truck caused the road traffic accident due to excessive speed. The Mack truck was travelling from Epe, crossed the median and hit into a JB truck moving inbound Epe, and also crushed a commercial motorcycle on the same lane,” he said.
The truck was said to have lost control and rammed into an empty Benz low-bed JB construction vehicle and a commercial motorcycle
The remains of the victims have been deposited at the morgue of the General Hospital, Ijebu-Ode.
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