A red-coloured articulated vehicle with no registration number
coming from Challenge Area to Molete roundabout in Ibadan crushed two
persons to death and injured seven others as a result of brake failure
around 7:45am on Friday.
The News Agency of Nigeria, reports that the articulated vehicle
rammed into no fewer than six tricycles, two Micra cars and two 14
seater buses at Molete motor park.
NAN reports that the Registration number of one of the 14 seater
buses was LUY 018 YT and that of Keke Napep was DDA 699 QQ while the
number plates of other vehicles involved have been removed.
An eyewitness, Mr Muideen Ajisuwon, told NAN that he heard the
motor boy of the articulated vehicle and the driver shouting that their
vehicle had brake failure, which made people around to start running
helter-skelter.
Ajisuwon said a woman selling vegetables and the driver of one of the tricycles were crushed to death while trying to escape.
The eyewitness said that among the seven injured was a female
serving National Youth Service Corps member and a student who had his
leg broken. He said the injured and corpses have been taken to the
hospital.
The people of the area called on Oyo State government to as a
matter of urgency relocate the Molete motor park because it was
preventing the free flow of traffic in the area.
When contacted by NAN correspondent, Seun Onijala, Oyo State Public
Education Officer, Federal Road Safety Commission, confirmed the
incident.
Onijala, however, said he was yet to be briefed on the number of casualties involved in the accident.
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