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Christmas Day Tragedy: OOU Final Year Student in Hit-and-run Accident Left to Die by Motorists, Pedestrians

Segun Atanda/

A final-year student of Urban and Regional Planning, Olabisi Onabanjo University, Boluwatife Oyeleye, was abandoned to die on the road after she was knocked down by a hit-and-run driver in Ajah area of Lagos on Christmas Day.

NewsmakersNG learnt that the victim had just alighted from a vehicle and was about to cross the Lekki-Ajah Expressway at the Ilaje bus stop when she was hit.

She was reportedly dragged to the roadside by a motorcycle rider who later abandoned her after no motorist volunteered to take her to a hospital.

NewsmakersNG learnt that the deceased was her parents’ only child.

NewsmakersNG also sighted a copy of the victim’s ID card, which identified her as a student of OOU.

The victim’s ID card

The accident reportedly happened around 6 p.m.

It was gathered that her family had been contacted and the body handed over to them.

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