Truck crushes toddler, two others on Lagos-Abeokuta Expressway

Three people, including a toddler, were killed connected Friday astatine the Toll-Gate country of the Lagos-Abeokuta Expressway aft an articulated motortruck mislaid power and rammed into waiting commuters.

Babatunde Akinbiyi, spokesperson for the Ogun State Traffic Compliance and Enforcement Agency, TRACE, confirmed the incident, which occurred astir 2:00 pm.

He said six others sustained injuries of varying severity successful the mishap that progressive a full of 15 people.

Eyewitnesses reported that the achromatic Howo Sino truck, bearing registration fig T4995LA, suffered brake failure, causing it to collide with aggregate vehicles and individuals astatine a autobus stop.

Other vehicles progressive included 2 yellowish commercialized buses (SMK 199YK and AGL 394YA), an LT commercialized autobus (FKJ 360YH), and 2 Suzuki yellowish buses (98YL and KSF 23YA).

“The motortruck reportedly failed to stop, crushing commuters who were attempting to committee a autobus and damaging respective vehicles on its path,” Akinbiyi stated.

According to the TRACE spo...