A yet-to-be-identified minor lost her life after she fell from a motorcycle and into the tyre of a truck along the Ilaro-Ibese Expressway in Yewa South Local Government Area of Ogun State on Sunday.
It was learnt in a telephone conversation on Sunday with the spokesperson for the Ogun State Traffic Compliance and Enforcement Agency, Babatunde Akinbiyi, that three other individuals sustained varying degrees of injuries in the accident.
Akinbiyi noted that the accident, which involved a truck with number plate MDB 249 XA and an unregistered motorcycle, occurred at about 5 p.m.
According to him, the motorcycle was overloaded with four passengers and ran into a bad section of the road, causing the female minor to fall into the tyre of the truck.
The impact of the accident was said to have led to the victim’s death, while three others sustained injuries.
Akinbiyi said, “A fatal RTA occurred along the Ilaro-Ibese Road, inbound Ilaro, at about 1640hrs on Sunday. It involved a cement truck with the number plate MDB 249 XA and an unregistered motorcycle.
“According to eyewitnesses, due to the bad road, the motorbike rider lost control and fell close to the truck’s tyre.
“The impact of the collision reportedly led to the death of the female child, while three adults were injured.”
He noted that the injured victims were taken to the Ilaro General Hospital, while the deceased’s body was deposited in the same hospital’s morgue.
The TRACE spokesperson added that some motorcyclists in the area went on the rampage after the incident, but the swift intervention of security agencies brought the situation under control.
“The three adults were taken to the Ilaro General Hospital for treatment, while the presumed dead female child was deposited at the Ilaro General Hospital morgue.
“Motorcycle riders began causing an uproar, but with the combined efforts of TRACE, the police, Amotekun, and the Nigerian Army, traffic normalcy was restored. The truck in question was taken to the Ilaro Police Station,” Akinbiyi concluded.
PUNCH Metro reported a similar incident on July 26, when a woman was crushed to death at Ita Oluwo, a boundary community between Lagos and Ogun states, after a speeding truck with failed brakes rammed into another truck, trapping her between the two.
Similarly, PUNCH Metro reported on October 4 that no fewer than five people died after a truck crushed a tricycle at the Alapoka axis of the Papalanto–Ilaro Road, Yewa South Local Government Area of Ogun State.
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