VIO officer crushed to death while stopping truck for inspection in Ondo

A Vehicle Inspection Officer (VIO) was on Friday crushed to decease by a motortruck successful Akure, the Ondo State superior during a regular cheque of conveyance documents.

The fatal mishap occurred other Mega Primary School on Hospital Road wrong the metropolis, erstwhile the serviceman attempted to intercept the motortruck for an inspection.

According to eyewitness accounts, the serviceman stepped successful beforehand of the oncoming conveyance successful an effort to compel the operator to stop, but the truck, which was already travelling connected the accelerated lane, could not beryllium halted successful time, resulting successful the serviceman being fatally crushed.

One of the eyewitnesses, who identified herself simply arsenic Busayo, recounted the harrowing scene, explaining that the deceased serviceman was lasting straight successful beforehand of the conveyance portion attempting to emblem it down for inspection.

She said: “The VIO serviceman was lasting successful beforehand of the truck, trying to halt it for inspection. But the conveyance was already connected the accelerated lane and earlier anyone could realise what was happening, it had already knocked him down.”

Busayo added that the incidental happened truthful rapidly that it took respective minutes earlier the assemblage of the deceased VIO could beryllium pulled retired from nether the truck.

Following the accident, sympathisers and passers-by gathered astatine the scene,...