TRAGEDY struck Sunday morning as six persons, including two serving youth corps members, lost their lives in a fatal auto crash along Warri – Sapele express road in Delta State.
The accident, as gathered, involved a Volkswagen Jetta car, occupied by the victims and a Toyota Sport Utility Vehicle (SUV) and occurred around the Okwejeba axis of the Warri-Sapele Expressway.
The SUV driver was said to have been on top speed when he lost control and rammed into the Volkswagen Jetta car that was conveying the youth corps members.
All the six occupants, including the driver, the two corps members and three other passengers in the car died on the spot.
The identities of the youth corps members could not be ascertained as of press time.
As gathered, the commercial taxi took off from Effurun Roundabout end of Warri and was headed for Sapele when the tragedy struck.
The incident took place at about 11:30a.m, Metro learnt.
A lucky female eyewitness, who would have boarded the ill-fated commercial vehicle, said the car had fully loaded before she got to the car park.
The witness, who spoke to journalists Sunday evening in Warri, disclosed that the commercial vehicle she eventually boarded did not wait at the scene of the accident.
This, according to her, some policemen had already cordoned off the crash site.
Moved to tears, the lady who declined her identity, said “I can’t describe the feeling because I could have been one of those unfortunate people.
God just preserved my life by making get to the car late.
It was the first vehicle I approached as I got to the park, but it was already full.
I was surprised to see that the same car had been involved in such an accident, which didn’t spare anybody, not even the driver.
It happened by the Mountain of Fire Church at Okwejeba Junction.”
Meanwhile, Metro could not get a reaction from the image maker of the Delta State Police Command, DSP Andrew Aniamaka.
He promised to get back but couldn’t do so before filing the story.
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