No fewer than 15 individuals sustained various levels of accidents in a a number of auto crash that occurred on Monday at Omoyele Junction alongside the Sagamu–Ikorodu Expressway in Ogun State.
The accident concerned an unregistered Mack truck, a Toyota Highlander (registration quantity AKD 29 JZ), a Suzuki minibus (korope), and a bike.
Spokesperson of the Ogun State Visitors Compliance and Enforcement Corps (TRACE), Babatunde Akinbiyi, confirmed the incident in a press release on Tuesday in Abeokuta.
Based on him, the crash resulted from extreme dashing by the truck driver, who misplaced management after the car’s brakes reportedly failed, inflicting the truck to ram into the opposite automobiles.
Akinbiyi disclosed that the 15 injured individuals, 12 males and three females, have been instantly attended to by emergency responders, as TRACE operatives and the police carried out rescue operations. The affected automobiles have been later towed away, restoring regular site visitors circulation to the realm.
In a separate incident, a lone crash involving one other truck loaded with containers occurred on Monday at Ijagun, alongside the Ijebu-Ode–Benin Expressway.
Akinbiyi mentioned operatives of the Federal Street Security Corps (FRSC) rescued the victims and conveyed them to the Normal Hospital, Ijebu-Ode.
He added that the accident induced vital site visitors disruption because the container-laden truck blocked all the street. TRACE officers created a diversion on the Ijagun Specific Junction to make sure motion for each inward and outward-bound motorists.
The TRACE spokesperson suggested drivers to keep up protected speeds to keep away from operating into stationary automobiles and forestall avoidable crashes.
In the meantime, Police in Ogun State have arrested a 24-year-old suspected cultist, one Sulaimon Laja, for allegedly terrorising residents of the Igbesa group in Ado-Odo/Ota council and its environs.
The suspect, who’s a member of the Aiye confraternity, was mentioned to have disguised himself to cover from the police.
The Police Public Relations Officer, SP Omolola Odutola, confirmed this to newsmen in a press release in Abeokuta, the state capital, on Tuesday.
Odutola mentioned that on sighting the suspect in his pretend look, the police instantly arrested and requested him to cause them to their hideout, the place an intensive search led to the restoration of a single-barreled gun as an exhibit
She expressed additional that the suspect confessed to cult associated actions and crimes perpetrated by his group whom a few of whose members have been on the run, and likewise offered helpful info to the police about their identification.
The Police PRO mentioned that the command had, nonetheless, launched a manhunt for the fleeing members to make sure their fast arrest.
