A heavy duty truck, conveying
crates of soft drinks, yesterday, at the Okorodafe Roundabout in
Ughelli, Delta State, crushed a four-month-old baby girl who had fallen
off the back of her mother traveling on a commercial motorcycle.
Eyewitnesses told Vanguard that the mother of the baby, was struggling to adjust the wrapper with which she strapped
the baby to her back, while the motorcycle was in motion. In the
process, the baby fell on the middle of the road and was immediately
crushed by the truck, which was directly behind the Okada.
Officials of Ughelli Command of the Federal Road Safety Commission,
FRSC, have since cleared the remains of the dead baby off the road.