Cruel Fate: Lucky escape from deadly accident angers community

A truck carrying granite from the Ago Iwoye quarry to Ijebu-Ode was tearing through the bend at Imepe, aroud the Lagos garage close by.

The driver and his conductor had no idea what fate had in store for them and the busy community August 2.

It was 2: 30 at noon.

Suddenly, the driver was no longer in control.

Eyewitnesses of the crash—which later claimed three lives of innocent residents—confirmed the driver was over-speeding and reckless.

Just around the bend, the Mack truck careened off the road, and leaped, as it were, a little across an open drain, smashed into a building. The truck unhinged, and the dumper, loaded with a ton of granite, flailed.

A woman and her daughter were standing in front of their house discussing with a motorcycle operator—just a moment before.

Now the three were under the wreck.

The Ogun State Traffic Compliance and Enforcement Corps (TRACE) spokesman Babtunde Akinbiyi confirmed the fatality of the accident.

On the face of it, the wreck didn’t look like one anything could have survived: the keel-over, the dump of granite, the broken truck head, the shattered pavement, and even the horror of the site.

Yet some lives were spared.

The driver and his conductor escaped—not just the accident, but also he jungle justice they could have got.

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