A yet to be identified commercial driver has reportedly died in an auto crash that happened on Sunday along Abeokuta expressway.
This was made known in a post shared on the Facebook page of one Ashara Samuel Adekunle Aska.
Aska, who was among the passengers that survived the accident said they were travelling from Abeokuta to Ajah when the unfortunate incident happened.
He said he didn’t notice on time that the driver was drunk until he almost hit a commercial motorcyclist from behind immediately they passed governors office at Oke Mosan.
Aska said he raised the alarm and asked the driver why he wasn’t concentrating, but the driver started shouting and arguing with him a development that made other passengers in the vehicle to also shout back at the driver.
He said,
“The driver apologized saying he knows what he’s doing that in fact, he has been driving before I was born that I should not be angry after all that he knows what he’s doing that we’ve nothing to fear.”
Aska said they continued their journey, and the driver branched a petrol station to fill his tank, afterwards they zoomed off.
According to him, he suddenly noticed the driver was attending to his phone and was looking down instead of facing the front.
Aska said,
“Suddenly he faced the front and our car jumped on the culvert diving the car sulmasalted 5 times at first I didn’t notice it was an accident I thouht it’s was a movie or dream until the car turnbulled the third time I notice it’s was an accident and I started shouting Jesus.
“Eventually the car stopped and I found the driver lifeless in my front then I removed the seat belt and came out of the vehicle if not for the seat belt and God intervention I would have been a gone person, out of all passager in the vehicle I can only see myself and a man as the only survivor in the car with no injury or stuff.”
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