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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The Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) on Monday commenced an operation on the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway to ensure that trucks, trailers and tanker drivers complied with traffic rules. The operation, tagged, Operation Scorpion, started at different strategic points on the expressway, including the Ojota toll gate, Mowe and Ogere areas.
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The photos are from scene of an accident that happened on Thursday evening along the Sagamu-Benin express road at Delabo Junction not too far from Ilishan, the scene of a fatal accident that claimed the lives of several OOU students few weeks ago.
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In an accident reminiscent of the one that happened in Ibadan a few weeks ago, a commercial truck on Wednesday in Ado Ekiti, Ekiti State capital, crushed a butcher to death in an early morning road disaster. The accident, which happened at Mojere Market area of Adebayo, caused a gridlock as passers-by rushed to the scene.
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No fewer than seven persons were reported to have been killed in a road crash at Igbara Oke on the Ilesa-Akure highway in Ifedore Local Government Area of Ondo State on Tuesday. The accident involved a truck with number plate, ALK 04 XA, coming from the Akure end of the road and a Toyata space wagon bus marked Lagos KRD […]
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A truck driver, Aderogba Adeyeye, has been brought before an Ikeja Magistrate’s Court, Lagos State, for allegedly crushing a policeman, Jeffrey Avro, the cop’s brother, King, and a relative. According to reports, the victims were passing through the Palm Avenue area, Mushin, in a Toyota Camry when the truck, with number plate, Lagos JJJ 809 XD, reportedly rammed into them.
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Yet another accident involving a container-bearing truck and a pick-up van happened early this morning along the Lagos-Ogun border town. The driver of the trailer reportedly lost control and crashed on the van. Luckily, no live was reported lost. Source: Lindaikeji
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A lady’s legs and thighs were completely crushed by a tipper in a most horrific accident that happened yesterday around First Bank Udu Road Branch, Warri, Delta State.
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Many traders cheated death by a whisker this afternoon in what could have been another major disaster involving a truck. A 30ton flat-bed trailer fully loaded with bags of cement was reported to have lost control and rammed into several shops in Mushin-Olosa, Lagos State. The trailer driver reportedly lost control while trying to drive around the pothole-riddled road. Source: […]
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