An unidentified truck driver has reportedly fallen from the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway bridge between Berger, Lagos State, and Isheri, Ogun State, a police officer informed PUNCH On-line on Saturday.
It was decided {that a} trailer had crashed into the bridge, inflicting the entrance portion of the trailer to hold off the sting of the bridge.
In response to the police officer who spoke to our correspondent anonymously, the accident occurred early on Saturday morning.
Nonetheless, he famous that the reason for the accident had not been decided on the time of submitting this report.
Our correspondent who visited the scene of the accident famous that males of the Nigeria Police Drive and the Federal Street Security Corps had been on the scene to keep up the free circulate of site visitors and security of lives and property.
In response to the police officer who claimed to have simply arrived on the scene, preliminary investigation revealed that the motive force had fallen from the bridge on account of the accident.
He mentioned: “We arrived right here about 10 minutes in the past (8am) and we heard that the motive force had fallen off the bridge. That's the knowledge we’ve at hand now.
“We have now but to find out what precipitated the accident, we’ve no info on the whereabouts of the motive force, nor can we decide if there have been any casualties,” he added.
Nonetheless, makes an attempt to talk to eyewitnesses proved unsuccessful as nobody was keen to talk about the reason for the accident, the motive force's whereabouts or whether or not there have been any casualties.
On January 2, two individuals had been killed whereas ten others had been injured in two separate accidents that occurred on the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway on New 12 months's Day.
The lone crash occurred round 8am round Isara Remo, the headquarters of Remo North Native Authorities Space of Ogun State alongside the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway and led to the dying of two passengers whereas three others had been injured.
The injured victims had been taken to Victory Hospital Ogere for medical consideration whereas the corpses had been deposited on the Isara Common Hospital mortuary.
