Doctor dozes off on steering, knocks down streetlight pole on HWN GOSSIPS

A middle-aged woman on Sunday morning in Abakaliki, the Ebonyi State capital, dozed off while driving and knocked-down a streetlight pole.

This caused her car to somersault several times.

A reporter who witnessed the incident reports that the accident occurred at about 4am at the Fati Lami Abubakar Park junction of Ezza Road, Abakaliki.

Confirming the incident, Arit Godwin-Bassey, the Ebonyi State Police Command’s Officer-in-Charge of Traffic, told NAN that her officers evacuated the woman to a nearby hospital.

Godwin-Bassey said: The victim was not seriously hurt and is responding to treatment.

We took her to the Federal Teaching Hospital, Abakaliki where she works as a medical doctor.

The victim confirmed to the police that she dozed while driving after rushing home from work to breastfeed her new-born baby.

I urge motorists, especially women, not to drive at night or whenever visibility is poor.

Godwin-Bassey also said that the damaged car, a Nissan X-Terra Jeep, had been towed to the police station as further investigations would be carried out.

An eyewitness, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said that the victim was on top speed when the accident occurred.

The eyewitness said: I was coming back from a party when the woman sped past, only for me to see that her car smashed a pole and somersaulted.

Efforts made to get the reaction of the Ebonyi State Sector Commander of the Federal Road Safety Corps proved abortive, as he did not pick up several telephone calls put across to him

Similarly, an FRSC official at the scene of the accident declined comment on the incident.

Source: NAN, HWN Africa.