Train accident: 2 escape death in Ibadan

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, told Sunday Tribune 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, Sunday Tribune learnt had been taken to the hospital for medical attention.
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