A motor accident involving a pepper-laden white Mitsubishi truck and a black Toyota Corolla saloon car has claimed three lives in Otte along Ilorin-Ogbomoso expressway.
The accident which occurred in the early hours of yesterday caused heavy gridlock on the ever-busy highway.
According to eyewitnesses, the car was coming from Ogbomoso while the truck was coming from Ilorin when they had head-on-collision.
The state commander of the Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC), Jonathan Owoade, who confirmed the incident, said that victims of the accident had been taken to the state’s General Hospital, Ilorin.