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Three dead as truck rams into Motorcycle in Lagos

By Benjamin Alade
14 January 2024   |   3:12 am
Three persons, yesterday, lost their lives after an empty long truck rammed on a commercial motorcycle around Barracks Bus-stop along the Lagos-Badagry Expressway.

Three persons, yesterday, lost their lives after an empty long truck rammed on a commercial motorcycle around Barracks Bus-stop along the Lagos-Badagry Expressway.

The Head, Public Affairs and Enlightenment Department, LASTMA, Adebayo Taofiq, confirmed the incident, but disclosed that while the two passengers on the motorcycle died instantly, the rider later died at a hospital around Satellites Town.

According to him, preliminary investigations revealed that a truck driver while on a top speed lost control as a result of a rear busted tyre, ramming into a motorcycle riding against traffic around Barracks Bus-stop inward Iyana-Iba along the Lagos-Badagry Expressway.

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