Officers of the Federal Road Safety Corps, FRSC, have returned the sum of N27.1 million belonging to one of the victims of a road accident at Ipetu, along Ilesa-Akure express road, Osun state.
It was gathered that six people were killed and seven others sustained various degrees of injury during the crash.
The accident which involved two commercial vehicles occurred at the Igbalajewe area of the high road in the morning on Tuesday.
The Osun FRSC spokesperson, Agnes Ogungbemi, added that the incident was due to excessive speeding and dangerous driving.
Ogungbemi said, “The injured victims were rushed to the Wesley Guild Hospital, Ilesa for treatment while the victims’ bodies were deposited at the hospital morgue.”
She added that N27.1 million belonging to one of the victims recovered from the scene was handed over to the family while the sum of N21,900 belonging to one of the vehicles driver recovered was handed over to the police.
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