Leadership (Abuja)
Bernard Tolani Dada
9 January 2009
Uyo — No fewer than five persons recently died on the spot in a ghastly accident involving two vehicles and four motorcycles along Oron Road in Uyo, Akwa Ibom State capital.
Eye witness's account said a metallic grey car, Hyundai Sonata with registration number AE 147 NGD driven by a woman and had other occupants in it got to a junction, on Oron road leading to Amity Hotel and initially trafficated to the left but later changed her mind and decided to move ahead.
But another car coming behind it, a black Toyota Camry driven by a man with some occupants (which number had been removed before our reporter arrived the scene of the accident) in a bid to overtake the car on the right hit it and it plunged to the left lane of the road crushing no fewer than 5 motorcycles, killing both riders and passengers on the spot.
Tearfully, some eyewitnesses of the gory scene who formed a large crowd around the shattered bones, damaged motorcycles and the corpses of those who died, said the drivers of the cars were driving as if they were in a competition and so, it was their recklessness that led to the accident and the death of the victims.
As the crowd swelled by the minute, people who heard the story as rendered by the eye witnesses cursed the drivers of the car whom some people said ran away as soon as the disaster took place. Other accounts also have it that the woman who drove the Sonata sustained minor injuries on the leg.
The people of Uyo who gathered around the scene expressed deep concern that the drivers allowed the devil to use them to wrought such disaster on the city of Uyo in the new year
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