Posted by By Olaide Adekunle on
Three people lost their lives on Saturday, when a trailer coming from the Republic of Benin, and heading towards Mile 2, had a brake failure and crushed a saloon car coming from the opposite direction.
Three people lost their lives on Saturday, when a trailer coming from the Republic of Benin, and heading towards Mile 2, had a brake failure and crushed a saloon car coming from the opposite direction.
The three unlucky occupants of the car were killed instantly. Saturday's incident was not the first on the road. Trailers loaded with contraband from the neighbouring country had, on several occasions, been involved in fatal accidents in the area.
An angry mob immediately set the trailer on fire, while the bodies of the occupants were evacuated and transferred to the Lagos State General Hospital, Badagry mortuary.
A sympathiser at the scene of the accident, Mr. Oluwafemi Aina, told P.M.News that the accident was due to negligence on the part of government.
'This is not the first time this kind of accident would happen on this road, but nothing has been done about it. Government ought to have banned such trailers from coming into the country,' he said.