By Chukwudi Asoya
OKPANAM/Nigeria: An accident that occurred on Sunday, September 18, 2022, at Okpanam junction by the Benin/ Asaba highway claimed the lives of five persons.
At about 3:10 pm, a blue-colored Lexus salon car running at a very high speed coming from the Asaba axis of the express road ran into a crowd of persons waiting to get a vehicle going to their different locations at the Okpanam junction and killing five persons on the spot.
According to an eyewitness who claimed, who spoke on condition of anonymity, the speed at which the car used in descending the hill from the Okpanam police station at the express roadway, was really uncontrollable, saying it was clear that either the car had failed to break or the driver had slept off on the wheels of the car.
The eye witness said that the car crushed five persons immediately and four of them died instantly, adding that immediately after the driver of the vehicle could not be tracked down, the angry mob at the Okpanam junction set the car ablaze.
It was observed that the wife of staff of the Ministry of Information, Mrs. Amos lost her life in the accident.
