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A football player has died following a multiple-vehicle collision on the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway in Ogun State, authorities have confirmed.
The incident occurred on Monday in the Magboro axis of the Obafemi-Owode Local Government Area.
Officials from the Ogun State Traffic Compliance and Enforcement Agency (TRACE) and local police reported that the crash involved a hit-and-run driver.
According to an eyewitness account, the deceased was traveling with other members of his football academy in two separate vehicles to a match when a trailer struck their Mercedes-Benz C300.
The impact forced the car into a bus.
“We were going for a match. We just saw a trailer cross from the other side and hit this Benz, then it hit the bus,” the eyewitness stated.
“Only one person died in the car while the rest of us survived. Everyone in the bus is fine, too. The trailer driver fled with his vehicle afterwards.”
The Mercedes-Benz, bearing the registration number SMK-878KX, sustained severe damage. Emergency responders were working to clear the wreckage from the highway.
