2-year-old, one other perish in auto crash in Ekiti
Area of Ekiti state, as a baby-girl of about two years of age
and a yet-to-be identified adult perished in an auto crash
allegedly caused by a yet-to-be identified driver of a Toyota
Four-Runner, with registration no: KSF 939 FF, who lost
control and rammed into a residential building and a parked
Izuzu Jeep belonging to one Barrister Oluwayemi Ojo, a
resident of the Araromi community in Ikere.
Speaking with blindwitness247 at the scene of the accident, Ojo,
who revealed that the vehicle had knocked down four persons
before crashing into his vehicle which eventually stopped it,
said: “The driver of the vehicle must simply be insane. He was
actually on a very high speed and probably lost control and
veered off the road into the building. It knocked down four
persons including a woman and her less than 2-year-old girl
It was my vehicle, parked here that stopped it from going
further to knock down other people. We just learnt that two
out of the four people that we made effort to rescue and
rushed to the hospital are dead. One of them is a little girl of
less than 2.
“People said the driver of the offending vehicle is an official
of the National Youths Service Corps (NYSC) attached to the
Ekiti State command of the corps. He was conveying some
corps members who quickly removed their belongings from
the vehicle and left the scene. Our people did not attack any
of them because they were corps members, ” he said.
Meanwhile, the building into which the vehicle first crashed
into is now in ruins just as the ruins of the wares inside the
shop in front of the building littered the environment.
Many eye-witnesses and sympathizers thronged the scene of
the accident. Some wailed over what had happened while
other rained curses on the driver of the vehicle.
