Tragedy struck on Tuesday evening as a heavy-duty truck, conveying bags of fertilizer suffered system failure along Abuja-Keffi expressway, resulting in the death of four persons and leaving many others injured.
The truck which collided with a Honda Accord car, crushed all occupants of the car beyond recognition.
Eyewitnesses disclosed that the driver of the trailer lost control of the vehicle while descending from the Kugbo hill on the Abuja-Keffi highway following the brake system failure.
The driver who was unable to stop the speedy vehicle which was headed towards Keffi; used smaller cars in front of it as wedging tools, smashing vehicles it came in contact with until it crushed the Honda Accord car into a metal pillar where it eventually came to a halt.
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This left the bodies of the four occupants dismembered, while survivors from the other affected cars were also left with various degrees of injury.
Officials of the Federal Road Safety Corps, FRSC, and sympathizers who rushed to the scene to rescue surviving victims were left shocked and clueless after meeting dismembered body parts in the mangled car with no room to pull them out.
Effort is still in progress by the FRSC to cut open the mangled car to enable them pick the remains of victims.
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