Mother, son die in Lagos multiple accidents

An unidentified woman and her son lost their lives in the early hours
of Friday when a truck crashed into three commercial buses at the Ketu
end of the popular Ikorodu Road in Lagos.
According to eyewitnesses, who spoke with our correspondent shortly
after the incident, the driver of the truck carrying two fully loaded
containers and marked Lagos SMK98XF lost control of the vehicle before
ramming into the buses which were picking passengers on the road.
Two of the buses were marked Lagos SMK-406XF and Lagos KH318-KRD. The
third which why a TATA luxury bus had been moved away from the scene
when our correspondent arrived.
One of the containers fell on the victims while the other destroyed
the buses completely, dragging them more than 10 meters from the point
of first contact. Shoes, clothes and other items belonging to victims
littered the scene of the sad event.
An official of the Federal Road Safety Corps, who was among several
uniformed personnel on ground controlling the large crowd that
gathered at the scene of the accident, told a source that about eight
injured persons were rescued from the buses before being rushed to the
hospital.
Commercial buses plying the route are notorious for indiscriminate
picking of passengers on the service and express lanes thereby causing
gridlock almost throughout the day.

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