By DAYO JOHNSON, Akure

AT least four members of the same family reportedly lost their lives in an auto crash in Akure, the Ondo State capital Friday when officials of the Federal Road Safety Corps FRSC allegedly stopped a vehicle in the middle of the road abruptly.

The action of the FRSC officials according to eyewitness account resulted in three vehicles ramming into one another along the ever busy Ilesa-Owo expressway in Akure metropolis.

Some irate youths were mobilized to the FRSC office along the road and vandalized it.

Timely intervention of policemen from Ijapo Police Station prevented the youths from razing down the office.

Other officials of the Corps who were on patrol reportedly took to their heels when they saw the mob approaching them.

The officials of the corps were said to be on patrol along the express road when the incident occurred.

The eye witness  who is a motor dealer at the Akure Auto mart  adjacent to the scene of the crash said that the FRSC officials stopped the driver of the vehicle abruptly in the middle of the road to check his  particulars.An oncoming trailer reportedly lost control and rammed into the vehicle and compressed it.