A Mack truck loaded with soft drinks on Wednesday crushed a woman and his child to death in a lone accident which also killed the trucks motor boy at Ajibawo in Atan on Sango /Idiroko road.
Mr Babatunde Akinbiyi, the Spokesman, Traffic Compliance and Enforcement Corps (TRACE) in Ogun, confirmed the incident to newsmen on Thursday in Abeokuta .
Akinbiyi explained that the accident occurred around 5:45pm and was caused by wrongful overtaken coupled with lost of control by the truck marked LSD 563 XW.
He added that four people were involved in the accident which included three male and one female , saying that two male and one female died in the accident while one person was injured.
“In the process of overtaken another truck in its front loaded with granite, the edge of the truck entered a ditch which led it to fall on its side killing a woman and his child selling along the road and the Motor boy,”he said.
Akinbiyi noted that the injured had been taken to Oluwalogbon Hospital, Atan before the arrival of TRACE officials while the corpses of the dead had been claimed by their relatives.
He urged motorists to always obey traffic rules and regulations and also endeavour to avoid excessive speeding and wrongful overtaken.
