2 Die, 4-Year-Old Survives As Car Plunges Into River

Two persons lost their lives after a car plunged into a river, last Friday, at Sensenyi village, on the Abuja-Lokoja expressway.

A 4-year-old boy and three others survived the accident as they were rescued by some fishermen.

A witness said the accident happened around 3:34 pm when the driver of a Nissan car with registration number XC 295 WRR, lost control of the wheels on a bridge fell into a river.

According to him, the driver and a passenger sitting in front died on their way to the hospital.

“Luckily, when the car fell inside the river, there are some men that were fishing at the river bank. These men rushed to rescue the victims with their canoe but on the way to the hospital, the driver and one of the passengers died,’’ he said.

City News learnt that the surviving victims were taken to the Federal Medical Centre, Lokoja, where the corpses were also deposited.  

Efforts to get the reaction of the Koton-Karfe unit commander of the Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) over the accident were not successful but an officer at the command confirmed the accident.

He said that before FRSC officials got report of the accident, the victims were rescued by sympathisers and taken to a hospital at Lokoja.

In another incident, three persons were also injured in another motor accident which occurred on Friday afternoon at Kwaita village, on the Abuja-Lokoja expressway.

The Yangoji unit commander of the Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC), Assistant Commander Jeremiah M. Fada, who disclosed this to our reporter, Sunday, said the accident happened around 3:37 pm.

According to him, the accident involved an unmarked Pajero jeep, which had its tyre punctured and crashed into a ditch, saying the victims were taken to Kwali General Hospital.