Two people were in the early hours of Friday killed in a multiple accident at Magodo on the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway, according to the Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC).
No fewer than 14 people were also injured in the accident involving eight vehicles which occurred at about 7.25 a.m.
The Lagos Sector Commander, Mr Jonas Agwu, told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) that the accident occurred when the driver of an articulated vehicle lost control and crashed into other vehicles.
“We suspect brake failure by the articulated vehicle. The drive may have lost control and ran into other vehicles including a commuter bus and five private cars.
“Two people including a woman were killed in the accident,’’ he said.
The spokesman of the State Police Command in the state, SP Jaiyeoba Joseph, also confirmed that two casualties were recorded in the accident.
NAN correspondents, who visited the scene of the accident, learnt that a truck carrying PVC pipes had dropped one of the pipes it was carrying on the road? at about 10 p.m. on Thursday night blocking a part of the road.
Eye-witnesses at the scene said that the affected cars, a bus and a truck conveying some pots and bowls, ran into the pipes which was blocking a portion of the road early on Friday morning, which resulted in the two deaths and others being injured.
NAN reports that officials of the Lagos State Emergency Management Agency (LASEMA) led by its General Manager, Mr Femi Oke-Osanyiyolu, men of the Federal Road Safety Corps(FRSC) and Lagos? State Traffic Management Authority (LASTMA) as were seen battling to bring out the corpses of the dead and remove the debris of the cars.
They succedded in retrieving the corpses of a male and female from the passenger bus crushed in the incident at about 11.a.m.
A witness, Andrew Ogbu also told NAN:“An accident had occurred the previous night and other vehicles crashed into it causing the multiple accident this morning.
NAN also reports that officials of? the LASTMA, the police and the FRSC had a hectic time to free the road of the gridlock caused by the accident.
Mr Olusegun Elegbede, LASTMA’s Head of Operations at Alausa, told NAN that more men had been deployed to control traffic on the road. (NAN)