Three Oyo kings die in road accident
Three monarchs from the Oriire Local Government Area in Oyo State died in a road accident on Friday.
According to reports from PUNCH Online, the accident occurred following a collision that involved a Benz E230, bearing the license plate OLODOGBO, and a Scania Truck with the registration 301 XF, at Aje Iye within the local government’s jurisdiction.
Further inquiries disclosed that the crash claimed the lives of two rulers instantly, while the third succumbed to his injuries hours later at the Ladoke Akintola University Teaching Hospital, where he had been taken for emergency care.
Olawoyin Adekunle, a witness to the accident, said, “Six passengers were involved in the crash, but the three survivors are undergoing treatment at LAUTECH Teaching Hospital. The affected passengers were going for a social function at the nearby community when the accident occurred.”
“The affected monarchs are Olodogbo of Odogbo, Onibowula of Bowula and Alayetoro of Ayetoro in Oriire Local Government.”
The incident was corroborated by Joshua Adekanye, the state Sector Commander of the Federal Road Safety Commission.
He said, “It was a head-on collision involving a private and commercial vehicles on Ogbomoso-Oyo Expressway. The survivors are undergoing treatment at LAUTECH Teaching Hospital while the corpses of the victims have been deposited at the morgue of the same hospital.”
