{"id":74479,"date":"2025-08-29T05:29:21","date_gmt":"2025-08-29T05:29:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=74479"},"modified":"2025-08-29T05:29:21","modified_gmt":"2025-08-29T05:29:21","slug":"trailer-crushes-woman-to-death-in-abuja","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/08\/29\/trailer-crushes-woman-to-death-in-abuja\/","title":{"rendered":"Trailer Crushes Woman to Death in Abuja"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Patrick Idowu<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Tragedy struck in Abaji Area Council of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), on Tuesday when a middle-aged woman, identified as Ramatu, was crushed to death by a speeding trailer while returning from her farm on a motorcycle.<\/p>\n<p>Eyewitnesses said the incident occurred near the Conoil filling station. They explained that the trailer, coming from the Lokoja axis, lost control while trying to avoid a pothole, ramming into the motorcycle and crushing the woman. The rider sustained serious injuries.<\/p>\n<p>The victim was rushed to a hospital where doctors confirmed her dead, while the injured motorcyclist is receiving treatment.<\/p>\n<p>An official of the Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC), who took part in the rescue operation, confirmed the incident, noting that the woman was alive when first rescued but died during treatment.<\/p>\n<p>He added that the trailer driver, who initially fled the scene, was later apprehended near Gada Buyi village along the highway and handed over to the police.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Patrick Idowu Tragedy struck in Abaji Area Council of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), on Tuesday when a middle-aged woman, identified as Ramatu, was crushed to death by a speeding trailer while returning from her farm on a motorcycle. Eyewitnesses said the incident occurred near the Conoil filling station. They explained that the trailer, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":74480,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[177,172],"tags":[59],"class_list":["post-74479","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-abuja-reports","category-news","tag-featured"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74479","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=74479"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74479\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74481,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74479\/revisions\/74481"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/74480"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}