Car Runs Into A Building In Ibadan (See Photo)

But for Mother Luck, a woman and a passenger in her Toyota Camry car would have died Wednesday as she smashed her car against the wall of a building in Ibadan while trying to avoid crushing a motorcyclist that hit her car.

The woman, simply identified as Alhaja, who had just left her home, which was about 500 meters from the scene, negotiated a bend to connect the main road leading to Bodija Market and the University of Ibadan, when the incident happened.

Having broken through the fence of the house, the car fell on its hood, although the driver and a young passenger in it were not injured. The car suffered extensive damage due to broken blocks of the fence that fell on its wind shield.

Narrating their ordeal, the passenger in the car told our correspondent that: “We just left home and as Alhaja was joining the main road, the okada (commercial motorcycle) rider hit our car with a bang. He fell in front of the car and in a bid not to run the car over him and possibly kill him, Alhaja maneuvered the car away from the man and in the process, plunged into the house.

“I was shocked because we must have slid down seven feet with broken blocks smashing the windows and the windshield. We were rescued by passersby but before we climb out, the okada rider had escaped. He must have realised that he was guilty before taking the decision to run away,” she added.‎

One of the occupants of the house said the owner of the car was a neighbor and that when a policeman approached the scene, he told him that it was a matter that would be amicably settled since there was no one injured in the house.

Source:- Newstelegraphonline