LAGOS, Nigeria (VOICE OF NAIJA) – Four persons have reportedly escaped death including a tricyclist who sustained injuries when a truck carrying a 40-feet container fell at the Amanator area of the Onitsha-Owerri Expressway in Anambra State.
It was gathered that the truck driver was conveying the container to a destination at the Onitsha Main Market when he lost control due to the deplorable state of the road and rammed into a tricycle with four occupants.
Punch Metro learnt that three passengers, who were going for the early morning church service, were fortunate as they jumped out of the tricycle when they saw the container dangling on the truck before it finally fell with the truck.
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A metal object was said to have popped out from the tyre section of the truck, hitting the tricycle rider on the face as he was running to safety, thereby injuring him.
One of the survivors, Ruth Nkwakama, said, “We noticed as the driver was navigating through the bad portions of the road and the container he was carrying was dangling, luckily for us, we had jumped out of the tricycle when it finally crashed down at the Amanator Junction. It was the tricycle rider that was hit by an object from the vehicle and he sustained injury.”
Recall that voiceofnaija.com had earlier reported two other cases of fallen trucks, recorded at different spots of the expressway in the past 3 days.
Apart from the one recorded at the Amanator Section, another one fell at Enamel Junction near the Naval checkpoint while the third one fell at the Mgbaemene area.