PREGNANT WOMAN, CHILD ESCAPE DEATH, AS EIGHT KILLED IN ACCIDENT ON LAGOS-ABEOKUTA EXPRESSWAY

The agency image-maker added that 10 persons made up of four males, four females and two children were involved in the accident that killed the eight persons leaving a pregnant woman and another person injured.

“We learnt that the Toyota Corolla Sport vehicle was inbound Abeokuta on the Lagos/Abeokuta Expressway when the accident happened. The driver of the Toyota marked AKD 649 FP, who was drunk and on excessive speed lost control of the vehicle and rammed into a stationery trailer parked on the road’, he said.

“Though the driver of the trailer was not in the vehicle when the accident happened, he reported and is presently at Ewekoro Divisional Police Station with the vehicles involved’,Akinbiyi stated, adding that  the remains of the deceased had been deposited at the General Hospital Morgue in Ifo Local Government Area of the state.

Penpushing further reports that, the agency spokesman disclosed that the injured pregnant woman and a boy were receiving medical treatment at the Federal Medical Centre (FMC), Idi-Aba, Abeokuta as at the time of filing this reports.