Truck Crushes Seven, Injures Others On Lagos-Ibadan Expressway
No fewer than seven people died in a road crash in Isheri, Ogun State, along the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway, on Friday morning.
Several commuters, traders and pedestrians were also said to have been injured.
Eyewitnesses told our correspondent that the casualty figure might be high as some people were believed to have been trapped under one of the trucks involved in the accident.
The accident reportedly occurred when a moving truck, with a logo of Indomie, ran into a faulty heavy-duty vehicle, which was parked on the expressway without a warning sign.
One of the vehicles involved in the crash was a “mini-truck carrying labour hands to a building site,” eyewitnesses said.
An official, who worked for a firm which hired the artisans, claimed that “eight of our boys died.”
Motorists were trapped in the resulting gridlock as the lane leading out of the Berger end of the expressway was blocked while motorists, in their desperation to beat the logjam, moved to the other lane, blocking motorists on their way to Lagos.
The Federal Road Safety Commission, the Police, Army, the Ogun State Traffic Compliance and Enforcement Corps and the National Emergency Management Agency among others were seeing trying to rescue the injured and restore sanity to the highway.
Images of the scene
The Army, Road Safety officials and the Police at the scene of the accident trying to put
matters under control
One of the damaged vehicles
Some other damaged vehicles
The petrol tanker being pulled off the road
Commuters that were stock in the lockjam after the tanker had been pulled off the road