Driver kills 2 in Abeokuta

Two persons were yesterday killed in Abeokuta, the Ogun State capital, when a driver, who witnesses described as “reckless”, rammed into them by the roadside.  The accident, which occurred at Alowonle, along the Adigbe-Obada road, not too far from the Ogun State Polytechnic, drew the ire of protesters, who wanted to set the car ablaze. […]

Two persons were yesterday killed in Abeokuta, the Ogun State capital, when a driver, who witnesses described as “reckless”, rammed into them by the roadside. 

The accident, which occurred at Alowonle, along the Adigbe-Obada road, not too far from the Ogun State Polytechnic, drew the ire of protesters, who wanted to set the car ablaze. The intervention of a police team from the Adigbe police station, however, stopped the mob action.

The accident occurred about 4:00p.m. when the young driver, alleged to have been drunk at the time, lost control of the Honda saloon car registration number FKJ 703 EL which he was driving and veered off the road to hit a commercial motorcycle rider and a female bystander. 

The two persons, simply identified as Segun (the motorcycle rider) and Seun, died instantly on the spot as the car crashed into a gutter culvert. 

The driver, who was in company of a lady, scrambled out of the car and frantically began to make a call. But the crowd that had immediately gathered drew his attention to the two persons he had crushed, who were in the throes of death. 

Efforts to rescue the victims began, but it was too late. In no time, the police arrived at the scene and took the corpses and the young man to the station, followed by the man’s female companion.