According to eyewitnesses, the accident occurred at approximately 1:30 a.m. and involved an ambulance with registration number JBD-405HA and an articulated truck with an unknown registration number.
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The General Manager of LASTMA, Olalekan Bakare-Oki, revealed this development in a statement issued on Thursday in Lagos.
The incident involved a tipper truck, a Rapid Response Squad armoured tank, and a Suzuki mini bus (JJJ 257 YJ).
The Director, Public Affairs and Enlightenment Department of LASTMA, Adebayo Taofiq, confirmed this in a statement.
The defendant, who resides in Benin City, Edo, is charged with alleged driving without a driver’s licence, dangerous and reckless driving and causing death.
The Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC), Ogun Command, has appealed to truck owners to ensure their tyres are in good condition before embarking on journeys to reduce mishaps, particularly during the ember months.
Two men were on Wednesday docked in a Magistrates’ Court in Agbowa, Lagos State for allegedly stealing a truck worth N10million.
The News Agency of Nigeria reports that the accident happened at Challenge at 7:40a.m.
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The victims of the accident were a commercial motorcyclist and his two passengers.
Law enforcement agents are currently on the ground attending to the accident which occurred around 8.52 am.
The Owode-Ijako Unit Commander of TRACE, Temitope Oseni, who spoke on behalf of the Corps Commander, Seni Ogunyemi, told the News Agency of Nigeria in Ota, that the incident happened at about 8.23 am.
The News Agency of Nigeria reports that the accident occurred at 2am when the 40ft containerised truck, loaded with fabric, had a brake failure while moving inward Berger.
Andrew Kumapayi, Sector Commander, Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) in Anambra, made this known in Awka on Tuesday.
Babatunde Akinbiyi, the spokesperson of the Traffic Compliance and Enforcement Corps (TRACE), confirmed the development to newsmen in Abeokuta.
The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation on Sunday said the reported explosion which rocked Abule Ado Area of Lagos State in the early hours of the day was as a result of gas explosion.
The driver of a truck in the early hours of Thursday lost control and rammed into a building at Ijaye in Abeokuta, killing a nine-year-old boy and injuring five occupants of the building.
Babatunde Akinbiyi, the Public Relations Officer of the Traffic Compliance and Enforcement Corps, who confirmed the incident to the News Agency of Nigeria in Abeokuta, said the incident happened close to a Connoil filling station on the highway.
A commercial motorcyclist was on Monday crushed to death in an accident involving two trucks and a Mercedes Benz car at Ifo on the Lagos- Abeokuta Expressway.
The accident occurred on Kairana Bypass Road in the state’s Shamli district.