It was weeping and wailing on the Ijetu space of Osogbo, capital of Osun State, on Friday afternoon after a yet-to-be-identified driver crushed a pupil to death.
The sufferer, a boy merely recognized as a pupil of Oxford Nursery and Main Faculty within the space, needed to cross the street earlier than the dashing automobile hit him.
Eyewitnesses on the scene of the accident knowledgeable The Guardian that the driving force shortly deserted the automobile and ran away.
A couple of minutes later, sympathisers and the boy’s dad and mom had been summoned to take away the stays. It was reported that the driving force reported himself to Oke-Baale Police Division and was subsequently detained.
A police officer who was in mufti later arrived on the scene with a tow truck and took the gray Sienna to the station.
The mom and different kinfolk of the boy couldn’t be consoled as they sobbed profusely.
Our correspondent, who was on the scene, gathered that the boy had left his faculty after faculty hours and tried to cross the double-lane street to the opposite aspect alongside his good friend.
“There have been two boys of their faculty uniform. They only closed their faculty for the day. I thought they had been going to purchase one thing from the supply retailer reverse their faculty earlier than the boy was crushed by the Sienna.
“The primary boy had crossed and was ready for his good friend. Whereas he was ready for the dashing Sienna automobile to cross, the driving force misplaced management, rammed into the boy who was standing very near the median and crushed him to demise.
“Once I ran to the scene, I noticed the boy in a pool of his blood and his books had been scattered on the street. It was a tragic scene. Folks gathered, and we needed to wait till the dad and mom arrived and took him away. The driving force instantly ran away and deserted his automobile. I think overspeeding as a result of the automobile ran over the median from a protracted distance,” an eyewitness mentioned.
