TRUCK DRIVER CRUSHES MAN TO DEATH IN LAGOS, MOB BURNS HILUX IN OGUN
A 49-year-old man identified as Gbolahan Aina was on Saturday killed when a truck rammed into him on Henry Carr Street, in Ikeja, Lagos State.
The driver of the truck, Godwin Donatus, was reversing his vehicle, marked KJA-74 XQ, when he hit Aina, who was standing behind the truck, at about 7 am on Saturday.
Aina was rushed to Maryland hospital, where he was confirmed dead by the doctor on duty.
The Police Public Relations Officer in Lagos, Benjamin Hundeyin, confirmed the incident and said that the body was deposited at the Maryland Hospital Mortuary for an autopsy.
He said, “The corpse was evacuated to Mainland General Hospital and the body was deposited at the hospital mortuary for an autopsy. Further development will be communicated.“
In a related development, an angry mob on Friday night set ablaze a Hilux Toyota vehicle after the driver rammed into bystanders, killing three people and injuring two others around the Kara-OPIC bus stop along the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway.
The white Toyota Hilux vehicle with number plate EPE80J was said to have suffered brake failure, which made it lose control and hit the people at the bus stop at about 8:15 pm on Friday.
The spokesperson of Ogun State Sector Command of Federal Road Safety Corps, Florence Okpe, disclosed this in a statement on Saturday and said that the accident involved six people, comprising five males and a female.
The injured victims were taken to the Lagos Emergency Centre, Ojota, for medical treatment, while some persons from the Kara market, who claimed to be relatives of two of the deceased, took their remains for burial.
The corpse of the third victim was deposited at Idera Morgue, Sagamu.
The statement partly read, “The crash involved a (white) Toyota Hilux with registration number, EPE80J. The cause of the crash was brake failure; the vehicle lost control and ran into people standing at the bus stop.
“The vehicle was set ablaze by angry people due to the killing.
The Lagos-Ibadan Expressway has witnessed a series of fatal accidents in the past week. Last Thursday, five people died while four others were injured in an accident that occurred around Fidiwo Bridge, near Ogunmakin.
On Wednesday, February 28, another crash around NASFAT killed five people and left 10 others injured. The crash was blamed on reckless driving.”
