Four understudies of University of Abuja, have passed on in a mishap which happened on Tuesday night at Gwako town, on the Abuja-Lokoja street.
A witness said the mishap, which occurred about a kilometer to Gwagwalada happened at around 10:12p.m. after a Peugeot 406 auto originating from Zuba hub veered from its path and slammed into an approaching trailer.
He said the Peugeot auto driver kept running into a profound pothole, lost control of his auto and slammed head-on into the unmarked trailer, slaughtering all its four tenants on the spot.
"The Peugeot auto somersaulted in the wake of hitting a pothole and crashed into a Daf trailer which was originating from Lokoja. The four inhabitants of the auto and the driver passed on the spot," he said.
He said save group of the Gwagwalada unit summon of the Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC), which was cautioned, arrived the scene and emptied the cadavers to the funeral home in Gwagwalada.
Our correspondent, who was at the scene at around 9:00a.m. recently, saw as a few drivers ceased at the scene shaken by the destruction of the Peugeot auto, while some cops were additionally observed at the scene.
Responding, the FCT division authority of the FRSC, Sunday E.Oghenekaro, affirmed the mischance saying the four individuals who passed on were all understudies of the University of Abuja, Gwagwalada.
He faulted the mischance for extreme speeding by the Peugeot driver.
"So the exhortation for the most part is that guardians must guarantee they abstain from offering access to vehicles to their kids when they have not been prepared and authorized to drive," he said.
He included that," it is exceptionally tragic that those kids should have been in school at that time."
The Spokesperson of the college, Waziri Garba affirmed that four of their understudies kicked the bucket in the Tuesday night mishap, which he depicted as awful.
He however said the school expert is yet to recognize the understudies and which divisions they have a place with. "We are told they are our understudies. Some of the time we would prefer not to reveal it since we need to find out and illuminate the guardians as a matter of first importance," he said.
A witness said the mishap, which occurred about a kilometer to Gwagwalada happened at around 10:12p.m. after a Peugeot 406 auto originating from Zuba hub veered from its path and slammed into an approaching trailer.
He said the Peugeot auto driver kept running into a profound pothole, lost control of his auto and slammed head-on into the unmarked trailer, slaughtering all its four tenants on the spot.
"The Peugeot auto somersaulted in the wake of hitting a pothole and crashed into a Daf trailer which was originating from Lokoja. The four inhabitants of the auto and the driver passed on the spot," he said.
He said save group of the Gwagwalada unit summon of the Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC), which was cautioned, arrived the scene and emptied the cadavers to the funeral home in Gwagwalada.
Our correspondent, who was at the scene at around 9:00a.m. recently, saw as a few drivers ceased at the scene shaken by the destruction of the Peugeot auto, while some cops were additionally observed at the scene.
Responding, the FCT division authority of the FRSC, Sunday E.Oghenekaro, affirmed the mischance saying the four individuals who passed on were all understudies of the University of Abuja, Gwagwalada.
He faulted the mischance for extreme speeding by the Peugeot driver.
"So the exhortation for the most part is that guardians must guarantee they abstain from offering access to vehicles to their kids when they have not been prepared and authorized to drive," he said.
He included that," it is exceptionally tragic that those kids should have been in school at that time."
The Spokesperson of the college, Waziri Garba affirmed that four of their understudies kicked the bucket in the Tuesday night mishap, which he depicted as awful.
He however said the school expert is yet to recognize the understudies and which divisions they have a place with. "We are told they are our understudies. Some of the time we would prefer not to reveal it since we need to find out and illuminate the guardians as a matter of first importance," he said.
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