Tragedy struck in Owerri, the Imo State capital on Monday when a truck fell off a heavy duty vehicle and crushed people suspected to be students of the Imo State Polytechnic, Umuagwo.
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5 DEAD, 3 RESCUED ALIVE AS CONTAINER FALLS ON FULLY LOADED BUS IN LAGOS (PICTURES)
No fewer than five persons lost their lives in the early hours of Saturday after a truck fell on a bus in the Ojota area of Lagos.
Continue reading »CLAMPDOWN ON UNLATCHED CONTAINERS
A safety saying recorded around the 1900s advised; “Every accident is a notice that something is wrong with men, methods, or material, investigate, then act.”
Continue reading »‘MOTOR BOY’ KILLED AS CONTAINER FALLS OF TRUCK
A Trailer driver’s assistant, also called motor boy, lost his life as a trailer fell on the expressway along Lagos tollgate yesterday.
Continue reading »OJUELEGBA CONTAINER TRAGEDY: DRIVER FACES MANSLAUGHTER CHARGE
Wasiu Adeleke, the driver of the container-laden truck which fell off the Ojuelegba Flyover in Lagos and killed three people on September 2, 2015, is to be tried for manslaughter, a court has ruled. This followed advice from the State Directorate of Public Prosecutions to an Ebute-Meta Chief Magistrates’ Court, Lagos, recommending the driver for a manslaughter charge. The magistrate, […]
Continue reading »RAMADAN DISASTER: THREE DIE, SEVERAL INJURED AS CONTAINER FALLS ON BUS IN LAGOS
Three persons were killed yesterday when a truck carrying a 40-feet container rammed into a commercial bus at Alakija, on Mile 2-Badagry Expressway, Lagos State around. 7.00a.m. Two others were injured when the truck moving inward Badagry and marked KRD526XP crashed into a commercial bus marked EPE972XH with five occupants.
Continue reading »DEATH TRAP ON OJOTA ROAD: THE PRELUDE TO MANY ROAD MISHAPS! (PICTURES)
Our crew stumbled on this ‘disaster-waiting-to-happen’ on the Ojota ‘Odoalaro’ bridge linking Maryland, Lagos at about 1pm today! We broadcasted this live as it was happening on our facebook page. In one of the shots, the truck almost crashed into an A. A. Rano 60,000litres capacity tanker! Every effort made by us to force the driver and motorboy to a […]
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