By Samuel Oyadongha
Yenagoa—TRAGEDY struck in the early hours of yesterday, on the Bayelsa State stretch of East-West Road, in Kolokuma-Opokuma Local Government Area of the state, when a Mitsubishi Gallant car plunged into the Okoso River, following a collision with another vehicle, a Honda car, traveling in the opposite direction.
It was gathered that the poor state of the road might have been partly responsible for the tragic accident coupled with likely fatigue on the part of the drivers, poor visibility and lack of road signs to warn drivers of the deplorable state of the road.
The Federal Road Safety Commission, FRSC, meanwhile, confirmed one dead in the Okoso Bridge accident.
The victim was identified as Mr. Steven Kemepadou, a staff of an indigenous oil servicing company in Port Harcourt, Rivers State.
He was reportedly driving a Mitsubishi Gallant that collided with a Honda car on the bridge before plunging into the river early in the morning from the Okoso Bridge on the Bayelsa stretch of the road.
The Sagbama Unit Commander of the FRSC, Mr. Samson Eniyemo, confirmed that the Mitsubishi Gallant car that plunged into the Okoso River had been recovered by local divers in the community with the corpse deposited in a morgue in Odi.
Vanguard Nigeria