Four persons at the weekend died in two separate road crashes in Ilorin, the Kwara State capital.

Three of the accident victims were members of the Ilorin depot of the Independent Petroleum Marketers Association (IPMAN) at the Ilorin Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC).

The road accidents occurred on the Ilorin-old Jebba Road in the capital city.

The three IPMAN members died when their car, a Prado Sport Utility Vehicle (SUV), lost control on the Oke-Oyi section of the road as they were returning from a meeting of the youth wing of their association at the Oke-Oyo NNPC depot.

One of the deceased, Alhaji AbdulWaheeb Abese, was the owner of several filling stations in the state. He was a chairmanship aspirant in next month's election of the association.

It was gathered that they planned to inspect a new filling station belonging to one of their members. The filling station was under construction.

The other two victims are: Alhaji Bola Taiwo and Hajia Rasheedat Gada.

Taiwo was a dealer with Forte Oil and had a station on the popular Murtala Mohammed Road in Ilorin.

Hajia Gada was also said to have a filling station near Sango area of Ilorin.

The lone survivor of the accident, Hajia Sekinat Lukman, told reporters that the vehicle attempted to avoid an oncoming car when it lost control, veered off the road, somersaulted six times and landed in the bush.

Kwara State's IPMAN's spokesman Mashood Jaiyeola said the victims were first rushed to the University of Ilorin Teaching Hospital, less than two kilometres from the scene of the crash, but were turned back because of the strike by health workers.

They were also turned back at the government-owned Sobi Specialists Hospital at Sobi for the same reason.

Also, a woman, Alhaja Iya Ganiyu, was crushed by a car that ran into her kiosk at Ori-Oke Junction in Sango area of Ilorin.

She was said to be observing her Asri prayer at 4pm inside the kiosk when the incident occurred.

It was gathered that the vehicle was being driven by a "learner", who lost control.

The car reportedly skidded off the road and hit the kiosk.

The deceased have since been buried according to Islamic rites.