Tragedy struck on Saturday at Wasimi Village on the old Lagos-Abeokuta Expressway after two women lost their lives, while four others were injured in a road accident. Also, seven persons died on Sunday at Fidiwo, Ogun State end of the Lagos-Ibadan Express in a separate road accident. The Saturday accident involved a Nissan saloon car with number plate, SZ 171 […]
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A truck driver, Suraju Adeyemi, has been arrested by the Lagos State Police Command for allegedly killing his conductor, identified only as Jelili, in the Alakuko area of the state. It was learnt that the deceased had hung onto the body of the truck without the knowledge of the driver.
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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 »It was exactly one year yesterday that the lives of 11 students of Olabisi Onabanjo University (OOU), Ago-Iwoye, Ogun State, were prematurely cut short in a fatal motor accident. They were crushed to death by a container-laden truck on Friday, June 26, 2015, which they boarded from the Lagos garage in Ijebu-Ode. The victims, Asade Christianah Ibukun, Law 200 level; […]
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It was mayhem in Maryland, Lagos today as irate mob descended on and extensively damaged close to 20 BRT buses following the death of a street hawker who was said to have been knocked down, allegedly by a BRT bus. The damaged BRT buses were among the recently procured buses injected into the BRT Scheme and managed by Primero Transport […]
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No fewer than 25 persons have been seriously injured after an overloaded truck belonging to Dangote Cement rammed into seven vehicles at the Odukpani Junction in Cross River State. The truck, which was reportedly overloaded with bags of cement, was said to have lost control due to the recklessness of the driver. The unregistered truck, which had the number ICT-11F-050 […]
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No fewer than 19 people have been reported dead in a multiple crash that occurred around midday on Sunday at the Fidiwo/Ajebo end of the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway. The accident involved a fully loaded commercial bus, a fuel tanker and a Dangote truck. It was learnt that the tanker, which was travelling to Ibadan, Oyo State, had attempted to overtake the […]
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No fewer than seven persons lost their lives while two others were injured in a motor accident, which occurred yesterday along Bauchi-Jos Road. Briefing newsmen, the Spokesperson of Bauchi Zonal Command of the Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC), Corps Commander, Daniel Sayi, said the accident involved a truck with Registration Number TYW 24 XA and a Peugeot.
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No fewer than 16 persons died on Thursday in separate auto accidents in Lagos and Ondo states. In Lagos, at the Abule Tailor bus stop end of the Lagos-Abeokuta Expressway, a widow and trader, Alhaja Fatima Adebambo, died in a fatal accident involving a cement-laden truck with number plate, XA 298 WNN, and two other vehicles. It was learnt that […]
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It was bloodbath on the highway when no fewer than 30 male passengers died in the Adeosun area of the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway on Sunday after a trailer conveying them tumbled down the road. Over 50 other people sustained varying degrees of injuries in the crash, while two rams were killed. The accident occurred on the portion of the expressway which had […]
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No fewer than four persons were in the early hours of yesterday sent to their early grave, when a truck sped off the Agege Motor road and smashed into some vehicles packed on the roadside in the opposite direction. The deceased and some six others currently in the hospital were passing the night inside three Volkswagen buses, popularly called Danfo […]
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The driver of a pick-up and his passenger died on Tuesday after the vehicle, which was conveying bags of ginger, rammed into a stationary truck in the Onipanu area of the Ikorodu Road, Lagos State. It was learnt that the driver, reportedly on top speed, did not see the truck on time, crashing into it headlong.
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