A woman was crushed to death inside her shop after a truck drove off its lane on the Lagos Abeokuta expressway and rammed into her shop.
According to reports, the accident involved an Iveco truck with registration number KSF 209 XY, which occurred at the Obada Oko corridor of the Lagos Abeokuta-expressway Monday, March 8.
Eyewitnesses say two trucks on the same lane were recklessly struggling right of way and in the process, one of them lost track of the road and rammed into a shop and house by the road, killing the woman who had just had her bath and was doing her makeup when she was killed.
Confirming the incident, the spokesperson of the Ogun State Traffic Compliance and Enforcement Corps (TRACE), Babatunde Akinbiyi, attributed the accident to reckless driving. He said the body of the deceased has been deposited in the morgue.
