A 40-toes box fell on a business tricycle withinside the Ijora place of Lagos State, k!lling passengers, together with a police officer.
The tricycle operator and some other passenger sustained intense accidents withinside the twist of fate which passed off on Tuesday, September 23, 2025.
The Director, Public Affairs and Enlightenment Department of the Lagos State Traffic Management Authority (LASTMA), Adebayo Taofiq, who showed the incident in a declaration stated the surviving sufferers are presently beneathneath extensive scientific care.
According to Taofiq, a mixed detachment of safety employees pacified irate onlookers, who had tried to set the containerised truck ablaze.
“The Lagos State Traffic Management Authority (LASTMA) hereby confirms the prevalence of a maximum lamentable twist of fate in advance these days alongside Ijora Causeway, inward Ijora 7Up, related to an apple absolutely weighted down 40-foot box truck XP 368 AKD, which overturned upon a business tricycle KJA 364 QN conveying unsuspecting passengers,” the declaration read.
“Preliminary findings imply that the articulated automobile, at the same time as trying a precarious manoeuvre underneath the Ijora Bridge, misplaced manage and therefore capsized, fatally crushing a tricycle in its path. Regrettably, passengers, together with a serving Police Officer, have been k!lled instantly.
"The stays of the deceased Police Officer have been in the end conveyed to a morgue at Yaba with the aid of using safety operatives, at the same time as grief-troubled household of the second one victim, a woman passenger, hastened to the scene to retrieve the stays in their cherished one.
"In a valiant rescue operation spearheaded with the aid of using LASTMA operatives in live performance with allied emergency responders, extra sufferers, together with the tricycle operator, have been extricated alive, aleven though they sustained intense bilateral leg fractures.
“The injured have been expeditiously transported with the aid of using the Lagos State Ambulance Service (LASAMBUS) to Jimsan Hospital, Gasikiya, Ijora, for pressing scientific intervention.
“To forestall a descent into chaos, mixed detachments of safety employees drawn from Badia, Trinity, and Kirikiri Police Divisions hooked up sturdy safety cordons.
"Their decisive presence pacified irate onlookers, who had tried to set the containerised truck ablaze, and safeguarded the emergency responders for the duration of the period of the rescue operations.
“The General Manager of LASTMA, Mr Olalekan Bakare-Oki, has expressed profound condolences to the bereaved households of the past due Police Officer and the deceased woman passenger, describing the tragedy as deeply grievous and maximum regrettable.
“He in addition supplied prayers for the rapid recovery of the 2 surviving sufferers who continue to be beneathneath extensive scientific care.
“Bakare-Oki similarly lauded the mixed emergency and safety companies for his or her set off intervention, commendable professionalism, and proactive measures, which forestalled in addition fatalities and avoided escalation of the situation.
“The Authority hereby reiterates its earnest admonition to truck operators and articulated automobile drivers to exercising the very best diploma of caution, specially while negotiating bridges, intersections,
and densely trafficked corridors, so that it will forestall the recurrence of such calamitous incidents."
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