OGUN: SAGAMU: Mob Sets Vehicle Ablaze After Pedestrian Dies In Road crash at sabo Sagamu

OGUN: SAGAMU: Mob Sets Vehicle Ablaze After Pedestrian Dies In Road crash at sabo Sagamu

Save Our Nation SON

August 19, 2024

A yet-to-be-identified man has been confirmed dead following a fatal accident involving a vehicle and a motorcycle on Akarigbo Road, Sabo, Sagamu, Ogun State, on Sunday.

the incident occurred around 11:30 a.m. on Sunday when the driver of a Toyota vehicle with the number plate LND125VD lost control and collided with a Bajaj motorcycle, number plate FFF450VH, ridden by Friday Oni.

Force of the collision, threw both the commercial motorcyclist and a nearby pedestrian into an open drainage.

While the vehicle’s driver fled the scene to avoid arrest, both the motorcyclist and the pedestrian sustained varying degrees of injury.

The pedestrian and the motorcycle rider, whose names are yet to be identified, were immediately rushed to Olabisi Onabanjo University Teaching Hospital for medical attention. Unfortunately, the pedestrian gave up the ghost at the hospital.

The driver of the vehicle fled from the scene of the accident, but his truck was set ablaze by the irate youths, before the arrival of the policeman and other agencies who visited the scene of the accident.”

The pedestrian’s body had been removed and taken to the OOUTH morgue, while the remains of the vehicle and the damaged motorcycle were recovered and transported to Sagamu for safekeeping and inspection.