{"id":73035,"date":"2025-08-13T17:51:21","date_gmt":"2025-08-13T17:51:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=73035"},"modified":"2025-08-13T17:51:21","modified_gmt":"2025-08-13T17:51:21","slug":"five-die-in-ogun-illegal-car-racing-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/08\/13\/five-die-in-ogun-illegal-car-racing-crash\/","title":{"rendered":"Five Die in Ogun Illegal Car Racing Crash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Huldah Shado<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Five people have been confirmed dead following a fatal accident during an illegal car race in Ipara, Remo, Ogun State, on Monday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>The crash occurred around 2 p.m. when suspected internet fraudsters staged an unauthorized race with a \u20a630,000 wager.<\/p>\n<p>One of the vehicles lost control and rammed into a roadside shop, killing two bystanders instantly.<\/p>\n<p>Three occupants of the car later died from injuries sustained.<\/p>\n<p>A community source said the tragedy was caused by reckless driving during the contest.<\/p>\n<p>Videos from the scene showed lifeless bodies, a mangled car, and a damaged building, with onlookers wailing in shock.<\/p>\n<p>Ogun State Traffic Compliance and Enforcement Agency spokesperson, Babatunde Akinbiyi, confirmed the incident.<\/p>\n<p>He said the driver died on the spot, while other injured occupants were taken to hospitals, where they were later confirmed dead.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Huldah Shado Five people have been confirmed dead following a fatal accident during an illegal car race in Ipara, Remo, Ogun State, on Monday afternoon. The crash occurred around 2 p.m. when suspected internet fraudsters staged an unauthorized race with a \u20a630,000 wager. One of the vehicles lost control and rammed into a roadside [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":73036,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73035","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73035","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73035"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73035\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73037,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73035\/revisions\/73037"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/73036"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}