Woman, Child travelling for Grandma’s burial die in road accident
Woman, Child travelling for Grandma’s burial die in road accident
Tragedy struck in Abuja on Thursday as a woman identified as Mrs Omoniyi Rebecca and her four-year-old child died in a road accident that occurred near Kwaita Bridge, along the Abuja-Lokoja highway.
The woman and her child were travelling from Suleja, Niger State, to Ibadan, Oyo State, to attend the deceased woman’s mother’s burial, Modupe Eunice Oriade, when the accident happened around around 6:20pm yesterday.
Eyewitnesses say that the accident occurred when the Mercedes Benz car with registration number SUL 992 AA they were travelling in suddenly veered off and crashed into a ditch.
The Daily Trust reported that shortly after the accident, the woman’s corpse and that of her child were lying by the roadside, with FRSC officials trying to evacuate the corpses.
When contacted, the FCT sector commander of the Federal Road Safety Commission (FRSC), Samuel Org Ochi, confirmed the accident, saying the woman’s corpse and her child’s had been deposited at Kwali general hospital morgue.
He said the driver of the Mercedes Benz sustained injury and was taken to the same hospital for treatment.
