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Nigerian-based Cameroonian movie maker, Edgard Leroy, has died in an auto crash barely a few weeks before his 27th birthday.
Leroy, who recently won the prestigious African Magic Viewer’s Choice Award for the Best Indigenous Movie, died in a car crash on his way to Ibadan, Oyo State for a movie shoot.
Leroy, who also Directed the just concluded World of dance Nigeria Season one, died on Saturday, June 11, 2022.
According to his partner and friend, David Akande, the car crash occurred at Shagamu end of the Lagos-Ibadan expressway.
The rising filmmaker won the award for the Best Indigenous Movie (Yoruba) for his first feature film, Alaise, on May 14, 2022 at the seventh AMVCAs.
TheNewsGuru.com (TNG) reports that he is the first Cameroonian and filmmaker to win the AMVCAs and for his first feature film in a totally foreign language.
According to the Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) six persons died in an accident involving two vehicles on the same Lagos-Ibadan Expressway on Christmas Day.
Ahmed Umar, the sector commander in Ogun State, 12 other persons sustained various degrees of injuries in the accident.
The incident occurred hours after seven persons died in an accident on the Sagamu-Benin Expressway.
Mr Umar said the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway accident involved 18 persons and occurred at about 3.20 a.m.
He said that the two vehicles involved in the accident are a Toyota Hiace bus with registration number, MKA 567 XZ and an Iveco articulated vehicle marked XF 854 KTN.
“The corpses of the victims have been deposited at Idera Hospital, Sagamu, while the survivors are taken to different hospitals for treatment,’’ he said.
He blamed the crash on excessive speeding and loss of control and urged motorists to desist from over speeding to avoid unnecessary loss of lives and property.
Mr Umar also asserted that N127,900 was recovered from the accident scene.
He advised cautious driving and enjoined families of those who might have travelled in the Toyota bus to contact FRSC Ibafo Outpost for more information.
The sector commander commiserated with the families of the crash victims and prayed God to grant them the fortitude to bear the loss.