A middle aged woman is said to have died in a tragic car incident in Calabar, after she veered off the road into a ditch by the road while chasing her husband and his mistress.
Metronetworknews gathered that the acccident happened on Sunday.
A source who preferred to remain anonymous said that the woman sighted her husband leaving SPAR shopping Mall in the company of another female when she tried to block her husband’s car with the Toyota Highlander she was driving in.
The source further said, “Her husband maneuvered his vehicle out of the attempted blockade then took the Murtala Muhammed highway, with his wife in hot pursuit of them.
“In a bid to outrun her husband, she lost control of the speeding vehicle, veered off the road and slammed the vehicle, head long, into a tree, damaging the vehicle beyond repairs and also killing herself,” the source added.
Confirming the incident, the Sector Commander, Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC), in Cross River, Maikano Hassan, said the incident was caused by over speeding.
He said the incident involving a Toyota Highlander which occured on the Muritala Mohammed Highway in Calabar claimed the life of the lone female driver who veered off the road into a ditch by the road.
He added, ”Though the woman was immediately rushed to a nearby hospital, but she was said to have died few minutes later due to the injury sustained from the incident”
