By DAUD OLATUNJI
No fewer than  five  officials of Gateway Football Club, Abeokuta sustained  serious  injuries in an accident involving the club official Peugeot 505 station wagon  car and one other  space  wagon  car  on their way back home after a national League Championship in  Ekiti state leaving one woman dead.

Vanguard learnt that  the woman that died was a  mother to the owner of the Space wagon which had a head-on collision  with the official car of the Gateway Football Club

It was further learn that, Gateway Football Club coach identified as  Philip Boamah and other four officials were  lucky as they were only injured and  had been taken to a  hospital in Ekiti state  where they are receiving treatment.

A  source informed our Correspondent  that the  Ogun State Government was making arrangement to transfer them back home for  further treatment.

According to an eye witness,the accident  occurred when the tyre of a Mitsubushi  wagon car, prompted  the driver to  lose control which resulted  in an head-on collision with the official car of the Gateway club management.

Our correspondent further learnt that, all the  five occupants of the official car  whose number plate could not be ascertained as at the time of filing the report  sustained injuries.

But, luckily, the bus conveying the players  which was behind the officials car, narrowly escaped the crash.

The injured Gateway Football Club officials are: Chief Coach, Welfare Officer, Curator, Driver and one official of the Moshood Abiola Stadium, Abeokuta. They were rushed to Ekiti University Teaching Hospital alongside with occupants of the Mitsubushi Wagon

When contacted on phone, Media Officer of Gateway Football Club, Biodun Alabi confirmed the incident, adding that the victims were receiving treatment at the Teaching Hospital, in the town as at the time of filing this report.

He said ‘it was a head on collision between an official Peugeot 505 station wagon car of Gateway United and a private Mitsubushi  car as we were about leaving Ado-Ekiti around 9am. One of the tyres of the Mitsubushi car burst making it swerve out its lane to face our own car’ Alabi explained.

” Five occupants of the other car including a baby are also receiving treatment. Both cars a write off’