The accident involved a Mazda 6 car with number plate BDG 652 ET and an unregistered Ford SUV.
According to eyewitnesses, the driver of the Mazda car with number plate, allegedly a final year student of Lead City university, was making a sharp bend along the expressway when it lost control.
Perhaps in an attempt to brake, the car somersaulted and in the process, crossed lanes mid-air, before smashing into the oncoming Ford, killing two of the four occupants of the SUV.
The driver of the Mazda also died later, after sustaining life-threatening injuries.
Eyewitness accounts said the occupants of the unnumbered Ford Explorer SUV, a couple and two children, were allegedly on their way from an occasion (the car was not numbered and there were drinks in the car) when the incident occurred. The couple lost their lives but their children who sat in the back survived with injuries.
“It is a sad day. The occupants of the Ford had no chance to escape. The driver of the Mazda car was overspeeding and lost control. He rammed into a lamp post, uprooting it, before crossing the intersection and crashing into the oncoming Ford. The Mazda split into two. We dragged the driver out of a ditch unconscious but he died on his way to the hospital. The lady in the Ford was still alive after the impact and died later but her husband died immediately after the accident occurred”, a motorcyclist at the scene said.
The driver of the Mazda was later identified to be Daniels, a final year student of Lead City university, and was a budding photographer in Ibadan. His followers had taken to social media to mourn him, with varied testimonies of his expertise behind the camera. He had recently acquired the car and was to graduate in November.
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