Lagos Container Accident: One Dead, Many Injured
The horrific tragedy that happened at 10 am on the Iyana-Isolo under-bridge, Lagos State, has so far been verified to have killed a six-year-old kid and seriously injured others.
According to reports monitored by Touchaheart on Vanguard, A father, his two children, and other passengers were waiting at the Iyana-Isolo bus stop for a danfo bus to take them to their destination, suddenly a container on speed lost control when a danfo bus drove in front of him.
Many people were hurt in the heinous occurrence when a container collapsed on the side of a 6-year-old boy who was a short distance away from his father at the time and severely injured both his father and sister as well as other commuters who were waiting at the bus stop.
Speaking with an eyewitness, who sells drinks adjacent to the bus stop Mrs. Feyin narrated how the incident happened. “The container was on speed coming from Cele while the danfo bus was loading his passengers and immediately the danfo-driver drove in without checking his side mirror, the container driver lost control of his steering and the container tumbled while some commuters who were standing at the bus stop, fell on the gutter, and a six-year-old boy died at the spot. His sister and father sustained injuries and four vehicles were condemned
“We could not take pictures because everyone at the scene was weeping over the ugly incident, my brother, Baba Sewa who is one of the Agberos was the one who rescued some of the commuters and when he brought out the boy from the gutter he shook his head and said the boy is dead”.
Another eyewitness who was standing at the bus stop narrated how she, her husband, and her daughter narrowly escaped the fatal accident. According to her, “only one person was seen dead and the actual reason for this accident was a family of three who stopped a moving danfo bus while a container was in motion behind the danfo bus and could not control its speed when the danfo bus stopped to pick the family, it was in the process that the container hit the danfo bus that led to some of us sustaining this injury”
According to the Isolo-police division, only the youngster has been officially pronounced dead at this time; however, the other commuters who suffered severe injuries as well as both drivers have been transported to the hospital for additional care.
When a Vanguard reporter arrived on the scene, LASEMA, the Lagos State Emergency Management Agency, was already at work clearing the road of the container and another damaged vehicle.
