Truck driver dies, motor boy injured in lone crash in Lagos

A motortruck operator has mislaid his life, portion his centrifugal lad sustained aggregate injuries successful a lone mishap involving a 40-foot containerised articulated conveyance on the Isheri-Elemu inward Ijegun country of Lagos State.

The Lagos State Traffic Management Authority, LASTMA, confirmed the incidental successful a connection issued by the Director of the Public Affairs and Enlightenment Department, Adebayo Taofiq.

According to the agency, the mishap progressive an bare articulated truck, which reportedly mislaid equilibrium portion successful question and overturned connected the road.

The connection explained that the operator became trapped beneath the fallen motortruck and died instantly owed to the interaction of the crash, portion the centrifugal lad survived with fractures and different injuries.

“The unfortunate incidental resulted successful the contiguous decease of the driver, who became trapped beneath the overturned motortruck and succumbed instantly to the interaction of the crash. The centrifugal lad accompanying the deceased, however, survived the mishap with aggregate injuries and fractures and was promptly rescued and evacuated to a adjacent aesculapian installation for urgent aesculapian attention,” the connection read.

LASTMA said preliminary findings showed that the motortruck was not carrying immoderate cargo astatine the clip of the mishap earlier it abruptly mislaid stableness and overturned.

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