A prominent Egba chief and Senior Lecturer at the Ogun State-owned Olabisi Onabanjo University, OOU, Ago- Iwoye, Dr. Gbenga Folarin Dally, and two other unidentified persons died in a multiple auto crash on Abeokuta – Shagamu Expressway.
The accident, which occurred late Wednesday evening at Onipepeye village, about 30km to Abeokuta involved three vehicles, including the Toyota Camry car with registration number AAB 181 AA, driven by Dally.
A witness told journalists that a Honda EOD saloon car with registration number Lagos KSF 224 AT which was on its way to Lagos had veered off its lane and crashed into an oncoming commercial car, a Mitsubishi Space bus with registration number LAR 55 XA.
Dally, who was also the proprietor of a popular private school in Abeokuta, was reportedly returning from OOU, when he got to the scene of the accident.
Trying not to run into the accident, he was said to have applied the brakes but was crushed by an articulated truck coming behind his car.
The two passengers in the commercial vehicle died along with Dally, whose head was smashed. Dally’s private school’s flyers for the common entrance for the 2013/2014 academic session littered the scene of the accident.
The Commissioner for Commerce and Industry, Bimbo Ashiru and the state Police Public Relations Officer, Muyiwa Adejobi, were among the first callers at the scene.
It took the efforts of the commissioner, who made frantic phone calls before men of the Traffic Compliance Agency, TRACE, came to pick the injured to the hospital in Abeokuta, while the remains of the victims were later evacuated.
The Head of Operation of the Ogun State Command of the Federal Road Safety Commission, FRSC, Mrs. Cecilia Alao, confirmed the accident. She, however, said only two persons died in the crash.
Alao, who attributed the accident to overspeeding, disclosed that the victims’ bodies had been deposited at Ijaye General Hospital in Abeokuta.
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