An auto-crash on Tuesday in
the heart of Akure, the Ondo state capital, has left five persons, including
two women, seriously injured.
The crash occurred at about 11
30a.m on Lafe Junction area on the popular Oyemekun/Adesida road.
Sources say a Nisan Sunny taxi
marked ONDO XB 800 KTP, reportedly lost control while on top speed and ran into
a mini truck marked ONDO XA 747 www, belonging to a furniture company,
packed by the side of the road.
According to eyewitness
reports, the severity of the impact pushed the truck over the kerb used to
demarcate the pedestrian walkways from the main road and over the drainage
channel.
Those injured including the
driver and a woman that sat in the front of the car were rushed by sympathizers
to the State Specialist Hospital while three others at the back including
another woman were rushed to private hospitals.
At the time of this report,men
of the Motor Traffic Division of the Akure Area Command of the Ondo State
Police Command were said to have towed the wrecked commercial cab off the road.
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