Two persons have been confirmed dead while
several others sustained different degrees of
injuries following a brake failure accident
involving an unregistered Land Rover SUV.
The SUV reportedly veered off the road and
rammed into a building at Panada, Isolo area
of Lagos State.
According to eyewitnesses, who spoke to Crimefacts ,the vehicle had hit several
people along the roadside killing two persons,
including an eight year old child.
Confirming the incident, the Divisional Police
Officer (DPO), Aswani Divisional Police
Station, CSP Oyin Francess, said an
investigation would be conducted to know the
real owner of the vehicle since it is
unregistered.
She said the vehicle has been evacuated to
the police station while the injured persons
including the driver have been taken to the
hospital for treatment.
One eyewitness, Iya Fathia narrated: “I sell
goods on that culvert. As the vehicle was
approaching with reckless speed, I shouted at
him to condemn his manner of driving in fact,
he bashed the police patrol van stationed over
there and what we saw next was that he was
hitting people on the roadside before ramming
into that building. It was then we moved
closer to the place and realised that several
people had been injured. On the spot, we saw
a small girl lying lifeless on the floor as well as
a man who was identified as Jelili on the floor.
“Several people were injured. The girl’s sister
was hit and sustained serious injuries. There
were another four victims from a family. The
accident was so serious that we don’t know
the number of people that were injured
because the casualties were too much. A
woman was selling Dokunu over there, her leg
was broken with her small girl also injured.
The community has since been thrown into
great grief.”
It was learnt that the eight-year-old girl was
the only child of her father – who was
identified as ‘Akure’ and had followed her
maternal stepsister out to get what she was
going to eat when the unfortunate accident
happened.
The eight year old girl’s father was seen
crying uncontrollably while he received
sympathisers.
He said, “if I am at home she wouldn’t have
gone out. She knew everything about me.
Whenever I and her mother got into a
misunderstanding, she knew how to calm me
down. She knew what I wanted and what I
detest. Where is my Eniola!”
A family friend, Pastor Mrs. Ezekiel Ojomo,
explained that the little girl had followed her
sister out to get food without the consent of
their mother.
She said the mother would not have allowed
her to follow her sister.
