Five people have been confirmed dead in an accident that involved a car and a stationary truck around the Honda area on Ota-Idiroko Road on Thursday night.
The Ogun State Sector Commander of the Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC), Mr Ahmed Umar, who confirmed the accident to newsmen on Friday in Ota, said two other people sustained injuries.
Umar said that the accident, which involved a Toyota Camry car with registration number APP 583G and a truck that had no plate number.
It happened at about 11.45 p.m. due to alleged excessive speeding and dangerous driving on the part of the driver of the car.
The sector commander said that the car lost control due to alleged excessive speeding and rammed into the stationary truck and this led to the death of five people, three male and two female.
He said, “The corpses have been deposited at the morgue of Ota General Hospital while the survivors are receiving treatment at Cranft Hospital, Ota.”
Umar described the crash as avoidable and advised motorists to avoid excessive speed and dangerous driving and to obey traffic regulations to prevent unnecessary loss of lives.
He commiserated with the families of the dead and prayed to God to grant them the fortitude to bear the irreplaceable losses.
The sector commander called on them to contact the FRSC Command in Ota for details of the crash and to reclaim the property of the victims recovered from the accident scene.