The sleepy Oru town in Ijebu – North Local Government Area of Ogun State boiled on Friday morning as irate mob seized the Ijebu – Ibadan road and launched attacks on all trucks carrying sand or granite over the killing of road users by one of the trucks.
The raging mob were reacting to the “reckless crushing to death” in the morning, of a man and his two children by one of the trucks carrying granite.
The man and children were ridding on a motorcycle on their way to school when the accident occurred.
The truck driver who was trying to avoid a collision with another vehicle along the bustling Ijebu – Ode – Ibadan road, veered – off track and crushed the man and his children, a witness, told The Nation.
The incident , it was learnt, angered the people who quickly massed – up at the scene, and began to vent their anger on trucks and their drivers that passed by at the time.
The particular truck that killed father and children, was swiftly burnt along with two of its occupants, while another truck passing by was also burnt.
The truck is said to be on the fleet of the haulage trucks of a major cement manufacturing company in Ogun State based on the inscription and trade mark on its body.
The Nation gathered that the accident triggered pandemonium in Oru and the surrounding communities even as it also caused a huge traffic gridlock on Ijebu – Ode – Ibadan road, spilling into the adjoining ones, as fear – stricken motorists struggled to escape the troubled spot.
A source in Oru said the Operatives of the Federal Road Safety Corps(FRSC), Traffic Compliance and Enforcement Corps (TRACE) the Nigeria Army, Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps(NSCDC), Vigilante Service of Ogun State(VSO) and the police laboured to contain the chaos, clear traffic gridlock and evacuate the victims of the truck – motorcycle accident.
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