But for divine providence, the families of many pupils of a nursery and primary school in Okota area of Lagos State could have been thrown into mourning by now. A truck plying the pothole-riddled Ago Palace Way, Okota, lost control and hit a school bus that was conveying pupils to school. The incident happened during the week.
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In order to stop the flouting of traffic laws and wanton destruction of lives on the roads in Ogun State, the governor, Senator Ibikunle Amosun, has said his administration will expedite action on justice.
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No fewer than nine persons were crushed to death on Thursday night when a sand-laden truck crashed into a mini-bus at Gora village in Nasarawa State. Four other surviving victims of the accident have been hospitalised. Some eye witnesses blamed the incident on the truck’s brake failure.
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A trailer carrying a 40-feet container rammed into a commercial bus at the Ikeja end of the Lagos/Abeokuta Expressway on Friday, killing one person and leaving two others badly injured.
Continue reading »The student Union Government of Olabisi Onabanjo University, Ago Iwoye, on Saturday released the names of students affected by the truck-bus collision that occurred at the Ilishan Junction along Sagamu-Benin Expressway on Friday, the 26. (CLICK TO READ DETAILS OF THE ACCIDENT).
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Tragedy was averted in Osogbo, the Osun State capital on Friday, as a truck laden with fuel crashed into six vehicles including three commercial buses. Our correspondent gathered that the accident was caused as a result of brake failure suffered by the truck bearing 33,000 litres of premium motor spirit. The driver of the tanker marked, Lagos AGL 804XK, was […]
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Tragedy struck on Friday at Ilishan Junction, along Sagamu/Benin Expressway, Ogun State, when a DAF truck with number plate BDG 779 XE laden with container had a head-on collision with a Mazda commercial bus with number plate XV 311 MUS, killing 12 occupants of the bus instantly. The victims were five females and seven males.
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In Nigeria, heavy duty truck drivers (HDT) are often involved in road traffic accidents which are often associated with colossal damage to lives, properties and infrastructures. In 2011, the FRSC in its Traffic Digest reported that Nigeria has an average of approximately 5,000 tankers involved in wet cargo haulage, moving about 150 million litres of fuel, and 2,500 trailers in […]
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An accident occurred in the early hours of today, 12th of September 2014 at Toyota B/Stop (inbound Murtala Mohammed International Airport Road). The story from the scene of the accident has it that an Intermodal Container-bearing truck had an engine stall on its way up the steep Toyota overhead bridge and while it was uncontrollably rolling backward, it knocked off […]
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