Truck crushes man to death on Lagos-Ibadan Expressway

A yet-to-be-identified antheral has been killed successful a suspected hit-and-run clang on the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway, adjacent the OPIC corridor successful Ogun State.

The incidental occurred soon earlier 1 p.m. on Wednesday when the victim, said to beryllium a young adult, was reportedly attempting to transverse the expressway from the Lagos-bound carriageway towards the roadside astir the OPIC area.

Witnesses said a speeding motortruck struck the antheral and ran implicit him earlier the operator allegedly fled the scene.

The interaction near the unfortunate with fatal injuries, with parts of his assemblage reportedly scattered crossed the carriageway, causing motorists to dilatory down and manoeuvre astir the scene.

An eyewitness, identified arsenic Nojeem, said the antheral was crossing the road erstwhile the motortruck deed him.

Nojeem lamented the frequence of fatal incidents on the engaged way and called for the operation of a pedestrian span to trim the hazard faced by radical attempting to transverse the expressway.

When the country was visited soon aft 2 pm, the victim’s remains were inactive connected the road.

Confirming the incident, the spokesperson for the Ogun State Traffic Compliance Agency, Babatunde Akinbiyi, said TRACE officials, alongside members of the Amotekun Corps, were deployed to power postulation pursuing the crash.

Akinbiyi described the incidental arsenic a hit-and-run lawsuit astatine the OPI...