By Grace Udoh
The ever busy Aba-Ikot Ekpene highway on Tuesday,February 1st 2022 witnessed another tragedy as a trailer loaded with bags of Cements hit a motorcycle rider identified as Elder Nse Abaekpe
According to several eyewitness account at the scene of the accident which occurred at about 4.00pm few meters away from Holy Girls Secondary School, Ifuho, the driver of the trailer in a bid to overtake the bike man, had a punctured Tyre and hit the motorcycle rider killing him in the process
People at the scene of the accident blamed the driver of the truck for driving recklessly and also the poor condition of the road.
A driver who was driving along the ever busy road disclosed that “I was driving at the back when he overtook me. After successfully overtaking the trailer in front, he lost control of the bike and fell down as a result of a pot hole he drove into. It was at that point that the trailer who was already on full speed ran into him”.
As at the time of this report, the body of the rider had been taken away from the scene by family members. Our correspondent gathered that the truck driver fled the scene immediately while the truck has been confiscated by men of Nigerian Police, Ikot Ekpene Division.
The accident comes on the heels of numerous others which have claimed the lives of students and traveller’s who ply the road daikub. The people of the area have on several occasions appealed to the Federal Government to come to their rescue and fix the road.
