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Road Accident kills a Matron in Abeokuta

A lone road accident involving a Nissan Murano which occurred at Onipepeye along Abeokuta/Sagamu road has killed a matron of General Hospital, Iperu, Ogun State.

Ogun State Traffic Compliance and Enforcement Corps, TRACE in a statement by its Public Relations Officer, Babatunde Akinbiyi says the deceased was coming to Abeokuta with her husband who offered to take her in their Nissan Murano in order to sit for a promotion interview scheduled to hold at the state Secretariat, Oke Mosan when the accident occurred Friday July 2nd around eight in the morning.

Eyewitness accounts revealed that the cause of the accident was attributed to overspending which the deceased’s husband who was behind the wheel could not control as the vehicle veered off the road and ran into the bush, subsequently crashed into trees and other objects.

The husband was said to have sustained injuries and was receiving treatment at Ijaye General Hospital while his wife died instantly and her corpse deposited at the morque in the same hospital.

The wreckage of the vehicle with registration number APP 347 GF has been towed to Obafemi-Owode Police Station.

Commiserating with the family of the deceased, the State’s road traffic management, TRACE cautioned drivers against speeding, reckless and dangerous driving especially during the raining season for the safety of their lives and that of their commuters.

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