A final year Urban and Regional planning student of the Olabisi Onabanjo University, Ogun State, was, on Christmas Day, killed by a hit-and-run driver in Lagos state.

According to reports, the student, identified as Boluwatife Oyeleye, had gone out for a Christmas outing and was returning home around 6:30 pm when she was hit by a vehicle while trying to cross the Lekki-Epe expressway at the Ajah-Ilaje axis.

The driver, however, fled immediately he hit her.

A bike rider later assisted Boluwatife to the roadside and called on passersby to help rush her to the hospital, but no help came until she gave up the ghost.

A colleague of the deceased, who identified himself only as Kareem, said Oyeleye was her parents’ only child.

“She was in her finals. We were told that she had earphones in her ears and that prevented her from hearing the hoot of the car,” he added.

An official of the Federal Road Safety Corps said the agency received a call to the incident around 8pm.

He explained that on getting to the scene, officials were informed that her family had been contacted and the body handed over to them.

“We have a report of the accident. There is no pedestrian bridge at the point where she was hit. She had just been dropped by a vehicle and I believe she wanted to cross to the other side.

“Immediately we received an alert, we went there to see if we could assist her to a hospital or know if she had been taken to any hospital around by someone. But the motorcycle riders in the area said her family came to take her remains. It was unfortunate,” He said.

A copy of the victim’s ID card sighted at the scene accident identified her as a final year student of OOU.