An officer attached to the Special Anti-Robbery Squad in Ogun State has been confirmed dead, while four of his colleagues sustained injuries in an accident at Showo village on the Abeokuta-Sagamu Expressway.
Babatunde Akinbiyi, the Public Relations Officer of the Traffic Compliance and Enforcement Agency in Ogun State, confirmed the incident.
Akinbiyi explained that the accident, which happened around 1:25pm on Tuesday, involved a Honda CRV marked LSD 191 ET and a truck.
The TRACE spokesperson said that the truck was trying to make an illegal U-turn to Sagamu without indicator lights when the car rammed into it from the rear.
He said the car had five occupants who were made up of four male and one female SARS officers.
Akinbiyi said only the driver of the car died while all the victims had been taken to the Federal Medical Centre, Idi-Aba, Abeokuta.
Abimbola Oyeyemi, the Police Public Relations Officer in Ogun State, also confirmed the accident, saying the officers were returning from Sagamu where they had gone for a court proceeding.
Oyeyemi identified the deceased officer as Rafiu Olaoye.