No fewer than three persons lost their lives while six others sustained varying degrees of injury in a road crash that occurred at the Mile 12 Bridge in Lagos State.
PUNCH Metro gathered that the incident occurred on Tuesday at about 7:10 pm
It was also learned that the incident occurred as a result of speeding.
Speaking on the incident, @tinytuneofficial posted a tweet on X stating that a trailer with a brake failure hit the commuters on the bridge, which resulted in the death of the individuals.
She added that police officers from the Ketu Division took charge of the situation.
She wrote, “Incident time is 06:25; the accident was fatal. An articulated trailer with brake failure hit the commuters at the top of the Mile 12 Bridge inward Owode, leaving five corpses on the ground.
“The make of the vehicle is Mack reg number: KTU 973 XX. Action taken: police officers from Ketu Division have been contacted. The police at Ketu were contacted, and they did the needful.”
When contacted, the Federal Roads Safety Commission Lagos Sector Commander, Babatunde Farinloye, confirmed the incident to our correspondent.
Farinloye stated that the accident occurred as a result of a Volkswagen commercial vehicle colliding with an unidentified truck on the bridge.
He added that 14 individuals were involved, noting that three people died while six sustained varying degrees of injury.
“There was an accident around 19:10 around Maryland, Ikorodu, on the Mile 12 Bridge. It was a result of speeding. Fourteen people were involved. The truck registration numbers are yet to be known.
“An unknown truck collided with a Volkswagen commercial car, injuring six and killing three people. “It was a fatal car and a multiple accident.”
PUNCH Metro had reported that no fewer than three female adults lost their lives to multiple road crashes that occurred on the Ijebu-Ode Road in the Ijebu-Ode Local Government Area of Ogun State, just as six others sustained varying degrees of injuries.
The accidents that occurred separately on the same route around 9 am and 12 pm on Wednesday involved 17 people, with three recorded deaths, six injuries, and eight escaping unhurt.
