Two die, nine injured at ‘killer spot’, Onipepeye, in Ogun
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NIGERIA: TWO persons on Tuesday died in an auto crash in Ogun State at the spot that has claimed many lives – including the former Secretary to the Ogun State Government, Chief Olumayowa Olukoya, and where the ex-Finance Commissioner, Kehinde Sogunle, narrowly escaped death.
Several persons – among who is a former senior lecturer at the Olabisi Onabanjo University, Ago-Iwoye, the late Chief Gbenga Dalley – have died at the Onipepeye village along the Abeokuta-Siun-Sagamu dual carriage in Obafemi-Owode Local Government area of the state.
The Sector Commander of the Federal Road Safety Commission (FRSC) in the state, Adegoke Adetunji, who confirmed the accident, said that 17 persons were involved in the crash with nine critically injured.
The accident, according to him, happened around 11:35am and it involved a Toyota Picnic passenger space-car marked LAGOS KSF 957 BB and a Nissan Serena space-bus marked 25 OGHA, which belongs to a lawmaker in the state House of Assembly.
GatewayMail learnt from eyewitness that the Toyota, which loaded its passengers at Challenge in Ibadan, Oyo State was heading to Sango Ota before the tyre got burst at Onipepeye village.
Adetunji explained that the occupants of the vehicle were about changing the faulty tyres when the driver of the Assembly vehicle rammed into the picnic car.
It killed the driver and one of the passengers of the Toyota picnic passenger car at the spot.
Also speaking on the accident, the Public Relations Officer of the Traffic Compliance and Enforcement agency (TRACE), Babatunde Akinbiyi, said that the driver of the Serena was not only discovered to be over-speeding but was drunk at the time of the crash.
Adetunji also stressed that the drunk driver had been arrested for questioning. Akinbiyi stressed that the corpses of the deceased have been taken to the Federal Medical Center, Abeokuta and those injured too were also taken there for treatment.
