A truck driver died on Ojuelegba Bridge in Lagos on Monday when he got trapped in a multiple collision involving two other trucks.
His assistant escaped unscathed, however.
Permanent Secretary at the Lagos State Emergency Management Agency, Dr Olufemi Oke-Osanyintolu, made the announcement.
โA LASEMA Response Team encountered multiple accidents which involved three articulated trucks on Ojuelegba Bridge at 1.37 a.m. while returning from a recovery operation in the Ijora axis of Lagos.
โThe accident involved two trucks laden with sand and a third one laden with chicken feed.
โThe lead truck, laden with sand, reportedly suffered a mechanical error in motion, which resulted in a sudden halt of movement.
“The two other trucks, speeding from the rear, rammed into the first truck, trapping the deceased,โโ he stated
Oke-Osanyintolu added that the corpse had been extricated and taken to a morgue.
โAll affected vehicles have been recovered off the bridge to the LASTMA office at Iponri, Surulere.
โThe Ojuelegba Bridge has been re-opened for safe and easy vehicular movement,โโ he stated.
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