Date: 2017-11-06

It was a miraculous escape early this morning for the driver a saloon car after his vehicle plunged into Asa river in Ilorin, the Kwara state capital.

Eyewitnesses said the accident happened around seven o clock when the lone occupant of the car who was driving at very high speed lost control while trying to avoid a pothole on the bridge.

The car flew off the bridge and crashed into the river, several meters below.

Passersby are said to have hauled the male driver out of the wrecked car alive and almost unscathed except with a few bruises on his hands.

Channels Television reports that following the failure of emergency services to arrive on the scene, the people proceeded with efforts to fish the wreckage out of the water.