A driver was killed while several others sustained injury at the crowded Cele Bus Stop on Apapa-Oshodi Expressway Lagos on Thursday after two containers fell off a truck and landed on three vehicles.
The driver of one of the vehicles – a commercial bus with plate number AKD 489 XZ, who was trapped inside, was killed instantly but his passengers and occupants of the two other vehicles, a Toyota Rav 4 with plate number AAA 353 FH and a Highlander SUV with number plate AGL 366 FP, escaped death by the whiskers.
The truck, laden with the two containers, was driving inward Apapa, when it suddenly had a brake failure and in the driver’s bid to use the median to stop the truck, the two containers fell on the moving vehicles, but the commercial bus and the SUV had the worst impact.
Some of the passengers, who managed to escape from the bus, sustained varying degrees of injuries.
A female driver who escaped from her SUV was too stunned to speak. She was assisted to the median, where she regained her composure after 15 minutes before she put a call to her family members.
The Lagos State Traffic Management Authority (LASTMA) while confirming the incident on Thursday afternoon said the accident happened at the main carriageway near a gas station inward Cele express.
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