By Rotimi Ojomoyela

A yet-to-be identified adult and a baby girl were, yesterday, killed in an auto crash allegedly caused by the driver of a Toyota SUV, which rammed into a residential building in Araromi community, Ikere-Ekiti.

An eyewitness, Mr. Oluwayemi Ojo, whose Izuzu SUV was also hit, disclosed that the vehicle had knocked down four persons before crashing into his vehicle, which eventually stopped it.

Ojo, a legal practitioner, said: “The driver of the vehicle must simply be insane. He was actually on high speed and probably lost control and veered off the road into the building. It knocked down four persons, including a woman and her two-year-old girl, who was returning from school.

“It was my vehicle, parked here that stopped it from going further to knock down other people. We just learned that two out of the four people that we made effort to rescue and rushed to the hospital, are dead. One of them is the little girl.

“People said the driver of the offending vehicle is an official of the National Youths Service Corps, NYSC, attached to the Ekiti State command.

“He was conveying some corps members, who quickly removed their belongings from the vehicle and left the scene. Our people did not attack any of them because they were corps members.”

Meanwhile, the building into which the vehicle first crashed was ruined with wares inside the shop and in front of the building littering the environment.