Two
elderly people said to be on their way to a vigil escaped death by a
whisker on Saturday night as a train hit their Mazda 323 LX saloon car
at Sango market.
The
car with the registration number AG 32 WWW (Ondo), said to have been
held up in a traffic gridlock on Sango-UI road, had the people (male and
female) on board.
According
to an eyewitness, most vehicles that were caught on the rail track
manoeuvred and escaped, while the woman, who was driving the affected
car, could not, thus making the train to run into it.
Another
eyewitness, Kunle Ajibade, said that, “a traffic jam had developed
along the railway, making many of the motorists to be stranded. At a
point, it was obvious that many of them had almost forgotten that they
were parked along the railway.
“As
though woken up from slumber, the train came on sight honking so
loudly. Many of the motorists still caught in the jam began to drive in
haste. It was a chaos that could not be immediately managed. The train
had got so close that only very few buses and cars were able to escape.
Many others later found their way. But a car was trapped by the train
and it was impossible for those in it to escape.”
The two elderly people, we learnt had been taken to the hospital for medical attention.
Tribune
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