A huge container carrying goods fell down the Ojuelegba bridge in Lagos state yesterday trapping an SUV jeep under it. New reports has stated the cause.
Yesterday, a heavy duty container yesterday skidded off the Ojuelegba bridge, in Lagos, landing on a Nissan saloon car and an SUV, killing unconfirmed number of persons in the process (
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The driver of the Nissan car was dragged out dead when the container was finally lifted off the vehicles by 9:00pm.
The incident, which occurred at about 4.45pm, resulted in a multiple accidents, with fleeing motorists and commuters sustaining varying degrees of injuries in the process.
While some eye witnesses claimed that the container could have fallen off because it was not latch, The Lagos State Sector Commander of the Federal Road Safety Corps, Hyginus Omeje, when contacted stated that information at his disposal showed that the container was latch because it fell alongside the flat belt on which a container is hooked.
"If a container falls without the flat belt, then it means it was not latch and necessary action would be taken against its owner. But in this case, the container fell with the flat belt, indicating that it was latched.The flat belt was severed from the head of the truck."
"There is an ongoing operation code named Operation Scorpion initiated from the Corps , where we are on the the look out for unlatch container and its still ongoing, he added".
The South West Spokesman for the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA), Ibrahim Farinloye, confirmed that only one person lost his life as against earlier speculation that several lives were lost.
“Only one person is at risk and that is the driver of the SUV jeep on which the container landed, “Farinloye said.