Multiple accident claimed mother and child in Lagos

A multiple accident that took place yesterday morning at Lagos Ketu end of Ikorodu road claimed the lives of an unidentified woman and child.According to eyewitnesses,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
Saturday PUNCH 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.