A pair on Wednesday escaped loss of life after a container fell on their Lexus Jeep on the Toyota bus cease on the Apapa-Oshodi Expressway.
The Director of the Lagos State Fireplace and Rescue Service, Margaret Adeseye, in a press release on Thursday, acknowledged that the incident occurred within the night.
In response to her, the company acquired a misery name at about 6:35 pm and promptly responded to the scene, resulting in the rescue of the couple from the wreckage of their automobile.
She, nonetheless, defined that the incident occurred after the container by accident fell on the rear facet of the 4-Wheel Drive automobile whereas in movement.
The assertion learn, “A male grownup of about 45 years previous and a feminine grownup of about 37 years previous (each names withheld) had been rescued from the jaw of loss of life by the Lagos State Fireplace and Rescue Service from a automobile accident involving their Lexus Jeep 350 with registration quantity EKY 251 HW and a Mack Trailer with registration quantity BDG 513 XW conveying two containers of 20 toes every.”
The accident, which was a visual name on the Isolo Fireplace Station of the Company at about 18:35 hours Wednesday, on the busy Toyota bus cease on the Apapa—Oshodi Expressway inward Isolo, Lagos, had one of many containers by accident fall on the rear facet of the automobile whereas on movement, prompting sympathisers to come back to their support earlier than firefighters teamed as much as deliver them out of the accident unharmed.
Adeseye added that each victims had been joined by the trailer driver who additionally escaped unscathed and was taken via trauma remedy to determine their well-being.
“The stays of the automobiles had been cleared off the trail of the freeway by LASEMA after males of LASTMA cleared the following site visitors backlog with the help of the Nigeria Police from the Ilasamaja Division who had since introduced the operations into conclusion,” the assertion added.
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