Tragedy has again hit Lagos as another container fell from a truck during a road traffic accident claiming two lives.
The accident, which involved a truck and a commercial passenger mini bus, occurred late evening on Friday at Ijesha area in Lagos mainland, according to the Director General, Lagos State Emergency Management Agency (LASEMA), Dr Olufemi Oke-Osanyintolu.
Oke-Osanyintolu made the disclosure in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Lagos on Saturday.
He said that the LASEMA management received a distress call on its emergency toll free line at about 9:44 pm on Friday and activated a response team to the incident scene at Odo Olowu bus-stop at Ijesha.
On arrival at the scene, he said it was discovered that a truck loaded with an empty 40ft container, which had brake failure, had rammed into a stationary commercial truck and fell.
He said that the truck driver was rescued by the agency’s responders and taken to the nearest hospital by LASEMA Response Unit Ambulance Service.
Oke-Osanyintolu said that two adult females, however, died and their remains had been taken to the mortuary.
NAN reports that after numerous incidents of falling containers in Lagos and some parts of the country, the Federal Road Safety Corps had launched Operation Scorpion II to arrest and prosecute drivers of articulated trucks with unlatched containers.
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