Musa Affos (Rhapsodi), Jalingo
Tragedy struck on Friday, the first of January as two people have been confirmed dead and others injured in a car accident while celebrating the new year in Jalingo, the Taraba state capital.
Rhapsodi Affos Blog RAB gathered from a community source that the unfortunate incident happened around 2:00 AM in the early hours of today, where the young men who were 5 in numbers driving a Nissan 25 SL toured the “Mobile Link - Shawuya Primary School street” of Jalingo celebrating the new year.
According to our source, the driver was doing ‘car drifting’ as part of the celebration, he did it severally on a tarred road, but his drifting went wrong when he did it along essential drugs road - Shawuya road of Abuja phase one, a suburb of Jalingo metropolis. Instead of a successful car drifting, the car went out of control and started somersaulting, destroying several culverts and the car was damaged.
The driver died instantly at the scene, and the other person on the front seat was forced out when the car somersaulted because he left the door open while celebrating. While forced out of the car, he collided with a culvert which damaged his head and led to his demise.
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As of the time of filing this report the three other celebrants sustained minor injuries.
Reacting to the incident, one of the residents of the area, Paul who spoke with Rhapsodi Affos Blog RAB said, they were coming out from the church where they went cross-over service only to meet the unfortunate incident.
Paul lamented that the new year should be a call for a decent celebration, not rascality.
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