- At least two people were on Tuesday night, June 19, killed and many others injured after a containerised truck fell off Ojuelegba Bridge in Lagos
- The incident, which occurred around 8:30pm, brought to four, the number of times heavy duty vehicles had fallen off that bridge in two years
- It was gathered that truck fell on a commercial bus and two other private cars
Two people have reportedly died when a truck loaded with boards and plywood tilted on the Ojuelegba Bridge, Surulere, Lagos state late on Tuesday evening, June 19.
Two other persons were also injured, according to an update provided by the general manager, Lagos State Emergency Management Agency (LASEMA), Adesina Tiamiyu.
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the accident occurred at 8:30pm.
Tiamiyu spoke with newsmen at the scene of the latest accident; as remnants of the plywood were being cleared to ease vehicular movement in the area.
He said: “A flat bed truck laden with plywood and finished boards tilted on top of Ojuelegba bridge and fell on three commercial buses and a Toyota Corolla Camry.
“Unfortunately, two people died while two other people sustained injuries but what we are doing now is recovery. We have removed the vehicles from the road and we have also taken the trucks off the bridge.
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“We are now trying to clear the remnants of the plywood at Ojuelegba under-bridge and the top of the bridge. That vehicle was definitely overloaded and that was what I think caused the accident.”
He, however, urged commercial drivers to park at designated bus-stops and to stop parking indiscriminately.
Tiamiyu said: “If the buses were not parked indiscriminately, the accident would not claim lives.Commercial drivers should not turn Ojuelegba into a bus-stop. Let’s have free drive under Ojuelegba Bridge.”
Similar accidents had claimed lives in the last three years. In one of the accidents in September 2015, in which three members of the same family died, the relations are pursuing a N10billion compensation suit at the Lagos High Court. Both the Lagos and Federal governments, along with the owners of the truck, are defendants in the case.
Meanwhile, NAIJ.com had reported that the Enugu police command confirmed the death of a family of seven in an autocrash which occurred at Ugwu-Onyeama on the Enugu-Onitsha expressway in the morning of Sunday, June 10.
Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO) in the state Ebere Amaraizu, who confirmed the incident in a statement on Sunday, said it occurred at about 8 a.m on the Enugu axis of the expressway.
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