5 Die, Two Injure In Ogun Auto Crash

At least five persons were confirmed dead , while two others
were critically injured in an accident which occurred at the early hours of yesterday in Ogun state.

The crash which occurred around 7: 25a. m at the Orile - Imo village along the
Abeokuta -Siun - Sagamu expressway , involved a black- coloured Honda E . O . D car
with registration number : ( LAGOS) EKY 365 FB and a Subaru car marked :
( LAGOS) KTU 246 AT.
Pressmen gathered that the accident occurred when the Honda E . O. D car
going outward Abeokuta lost control , skidded off its lane to the other side and
collided with the Subaru car going inward Abeokuta , thereby resulting in the
instant death of four men .
Public Relations Officer ( PRO) of the state Traffic Compliance and
Enforcement agency ( TRACE ) , Babatunde Akinbiyi who confirmed the accident,
also said that the fifth person died while the victims were being taken the
hospital for treatment .
Attributing the cause of the crash to over - speeding, Akinbiyi also explained
that all the deceased were occupants of the Subaru car , while the two
occupants of the Honda car escaped unhurt .
TRACE PRO however , explained that the two critically injured have been taken
to the Olabisi Onabanjo University Teaching Hospital , Sagamu for treatment,
while corpses of the deceased were also deposited at the morgue of the same
hospital .