{"id":6167,"date":"2023-12-10T06:03:48","date_gmt":"2023-12-10T06:03:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/auto-crash-kills-one-injures-other-in-ogun\/"},"modified":"2023-12-10T06:03:48","modified_gmt":"2023-12-10T06:03:48","slug":"auto-crash-kills-one-injures-other-in-ogun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/auto-crash-kills-one-injures-other-in-ogun\/","title":{"rendered":"Auto crash kills one, injures other in Ogun"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>A yet-to-be-identified person has died and another critically injured, after a truck lost control at the Alagbon-Olorunda Bridge on the Owode-Idiroko Road in Ogun State.<\/p>\n<p>The South-West Area Commander of the Ogun Traffic Compliance and Enforcement Corps, Adekunle Ajibade, revealed this in a statement on Saturday, adding that the incident was caused by speeding.<\/p>\n<p>Ajibade added that the accident, which occurred on Friday, at about 4:15 pm, included a Mercedes-Benz truck with no registration number and a Bajaj motorcycle with registration number DGB 504 VK.<\/p>\n<p>He said four people were injured in the crash. One person was confirmed dead, another was injured, and two others escaped unhurt.<\/p>\n<p>According to the commander, the Mercedes-Benz truck lost control owing to speeding and collided with a commercial motorcycle, sending him into the river.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe injured victim was taken to hospital before our arrival while the dead one has been claimed by his relatives for the burial rites,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Ajibade warned motorists and motorbike riders to avoid reckless driving and excessive speeding to decrease or eliminate accidents over the Yuletide season.<\/p>\n<p>Auto crash kills one, injures other in Ogun<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A yet-to-be-identified person has died and another critically injured, after a truck lost control at the Alagbon-Olorunda Bridge on the&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6168,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[384,15,544],"tags":[387,180,547],"class_list":["post-6167","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-metro","category-news","category-ogun","tag-metro","tag-news","tag-ogun"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6167","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6167"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6167\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6168"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}