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4 Die On Abuja-Keffi Road As Trailer Suffers Brake Failure

No fewer than four persons were killed, and several others injured Tuesday evening, after a heavy-duty truck conveying bags of fertilizer suffered a brake system failure, colliding with a Honda Accord car.

The four occupants of the vehicle were crushed beyond recognition.

According to eyewitnesses, 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.

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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.

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 sympathisers 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.

Body parts littered the ground of the accident as sympathisers watched the agonizing scene of the unfortunate accident.

The FRSC men continuously made efforts to cut open the mangled car to enable them pick the remains of victims as at the time of filing this report.

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