New Year Tragedy: Family of 3 Crushed On Jan. 1 In Ibadan

A family of three, comprising a pregnant woman, her husband and a child were on Thursday crushed by a Sports Utility Vehicle (SUV) in Ibadan, the Oyo State capital, when the trio went for a New Year leisure walk.

Eyewitnesses said the hus­band carried their three and a half years old child while he walked beside his pregnant wife at 8:30p.m., before the SUV hit them on Adeoyo State Hospital Road, killing them instantly.

Checks by Saturday Sun revealed that the Honda Pi­lot SUV that killed the fam­ily was driven by a lady sus­pected to have been drunk. She was said to have rammed the SUV into an electric pole before the vehicle could come to an abrupt halt.

Eyewitnesses further stated that the police that came to the scene of the incident took the corpses to the mortuary of the Adeoyo State Hospital, Ring Road.

They also stated that when the lady’s SUV was opened, cartons of alcoholic drinks were found. The drinks, as gathered, were evacuated into the car of a woman, who was said to have driven in com­pany with the lady.

The Honda Pilot SUV was also said to have been towed to a police station close to Mobil Petrol Station in Oluy­ole Estate in Ibadan South- West Local Government Area.

However ,the spokesper­son of the Oyo State Police Command, Mr. Adekunle Ajisebutu, a Deputy Superin­tendent of Police (DSP) could not confirm the incident, say­ing he needed time for proper confirmation and asked the reporter to call him back later.