Tanker crushes dispatch rider to death in Lagos

A dispatch rider has mislaid his beingness successful a fatal roadworthy mishap on the Motorways inward Estate axis of Alapere, Lagos, aft being struck by an bare tanker reportedly moving astatine precocious speed.

Preliminary findings bespeak that the tanker, branded “NIPCO” and bearing registration fig TTN-776ZQ, rammed into the rider, starring to his instant decease astatine the scene.

Officials of the Lagos State Traffic Management Authority, LASTMA, responded swiftly to the incident, moving to stabilise the concern arsenic chap dispatch riders gathered astatine the country and confronted the tanker operator successful anger.

LASTMA operatives were said to person intervened to rescue the driver, who sustained injuries, and subsequently handed him implicit to unit of the Lagos State Ambulance Service for contiguous aesculapian attraction astatine a adjacent hospital.

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