A commercial motorcyclist has been crushed to death along the Lagos-Ibadan expressway in Ogun State in an accident that injured six other persons.
The Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) said the accident happened at Arepo bus stop around 1:10 pm, on Wednesday.
The FRSC spokesperson in Ogun, Florence Okpe, said an unregistered Lexus car rammed into two Bajaj motorcycles with registration numbers, FFF617 QM and LAR489VY.
Okpe said eight men were involved in the accident.
“Six persons were injured, one person unhurt and unfortunately, one person was killed,” she said.
The spokesperson said the cause of the accident is route violation and overspeeding, which she said, led to the loss of control on the part of the Lexus car as it rammed into the motorcycles.
Okpe said the injured victims were taken to Emergency Hospital, Ojota and Real Divine Touch Hospital, Ibafo for medical attention.
She said the dead body was deposited at Divine Touch Hospital morgue.
Meanwhile, the Sector Commander of the FRSC in Ogun, Ahmed Umar, has described the crash as one that could be averted if rules and regulations were properly obeyed.
Umar commiserated with the families of the victims, advising motorists to always consider other road users.