Hit-and-run Driver Crushes Policeman To Death In Ogun

 

A hit-and-run driver has crushed a yet-to-be-identified Police Officer to death along the busy Abeokuta-Sagamu-Interchange Expressway in Ogun State.

The tragic incident which occoured at Kobape area of the state involved a man suspected to be an internet fraudster, popularly known as a “Yahoo Boy.

Eyewitnesses said the deceased police officer was riding a motorcycle along the highway when the driver of the ill-fated car while on top speed crushed him to death on the stop.

The suspect in a bid to escape from the scene to evade arrest and as well to avoid mob attack, managed to escape but was pursued and intercepted near the Daywaterman School along Siun axis of the road.

It takes the timely intervention of the passersby to rescue the fleeing driver from the mob who attempted jungle justice against the suspect.

Ogun state police command and other road traffic agencies are yet to speak on the incident as at the time of filling this report.