Father, daughter die, as SUV crashes under truck in Abia

Three persons including a father and his daughter have lost their lives in a fatal autocrash in Umuahia, Abia State.

The tragic incident which occurred at Amibo Ubakala along the Enugu-Port Harcourt expressway of the city, involved a Toyota Highlander and a truck .

Eyewitnesses at the scene said that the driver of the Toyota Highlander while on top speed, crashed with a stationed truck loaded with iron scrap.

They added that the vehicle was coming from the Enugu end of the road with members of the same family.

According to them, the father was the driver of the ill-fated car while the other two victims are his teenage daughter and other occupant, other occupants of the car suffered serious injuries.

The State Sector Commander of the Federal Road Safety Commission (FRSC), Mrs Ngozi Ezeoma, who confirmed the incident to newsmen, said the victims died on the spot.

Ezeoma added that the preliminary findings suspect the accident to have been caused by over speeding or fatigue.

According to her, the injured victims were rushed to the Federal Medical Centre, Umuahia while the bodies of the dead victims had been deposited in the morgue of the same hospital.

She, however, said the driver of the truck, identified as Gideon Effiong Udofia, is presently in police custody as investigations have commenced.