ONITSHA—Tragedy struck yesterday at Okpoko Junction,
near Upper Iweka area of Onitsha, Anambra state, when a
hit-and-run driver knocked down a yet to be identified
pregnant woman, who died instantly.
The incident, according to an eye-witness, occurred at
about 4 p.m. when the pregnant woman was hit by an
over-speeding vehicle as she tried to cross the busy
express way.
The source added that the Federal Road Safety officials
attached to Onitsha Unit Command later removed her
corpse to a nearby hospital mortuary where it was
deposited.
One of the eye-witnesses and National Publicity Secretary
of Campaign for Democracy, CD, Dede Uzor A. Uzor, who
spoke to newsmen, described the incident as tragic and
called on both the federal and Anambra State governments
to build a pedestrian fly-over across the ever-busy Okpoko
junction to avoid more lost of lives and properties within
that axis.
near Upper Iweka area of Onitsha, Anambra state, when a
hit-and-run driver knocked down a yet to be identified
pregnant woman, who died instantly.
The incident, according to an eye-witness, occurred at
about 4 p.m. when the pregnant woman was hit by an
over-speeding vehicle as she tried to cross the busy
express way.
The source added that the Federal Road Safety officials
attached to Onitsha Unit Command later removed her
corpse to a nearby hospital mortuary where it was
deposited.
One of the eye-witnesses and National Publicity Secretary
of Campaign for Democracy, CD, Dede Uzor A. Uzor, who
spoke to newsmen, described the incident as tragic and
called on both the federal and Anambra State governments
to build a pedestrian fly-over across the ever-busy Okpoko
junction to avoid more lost of lives and properties within
that axis.
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