Five persons were reported dead on Sunday morning when a Mack truck and a Honda Accord car crashed in Ogun
The Federal Road Safety told thedabigal that seven male adults and one female adult were involved in the crash that occurred around 6am at the Ososa junction of the Lagos-Benin highway.
“One person was injured and five persons were recorded dead, four male adults and one female adult, while two persons were unhurt,” the FRSC spokesperson in Ogun, Florence Okpe said.
Okpe blamed the crash on speeding and wrong overtaking on the part of the Honda car, which she said had a side collision with the truck.
Okpe disclosed that the injured victim was taken to the General Hospital in Ijebu-Ode, while the dead were deposited at the same hospital’s morgue.