SAD NEWS : One Dead As Two Trucks Collide Along Lagos-Ibadan Expressway By Anuoluwapo Adeseun

An Iveco truck driver reportedly died on Tuesday morning, August 29, after an auto crash involving two other trucks along the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway, PUNCH reports.

Official sources said the accident occurred around 4.45am at Aiyetoro axis of the ever busy highway.

The Public Relations Officer of Ogun State Traffic Compliance and Enforcement Corps, Babatunde Akinbiyi, said the driver of the Iveco truck without a number plate, drove against traffic and had a head on collision with oncoming trucks, MAN truck with number plate FST 893 XT and DAF truck with number plate XG 189 MKA.

He said the Iveco truck was on its way to Lagos while the two others on their rightful lane, were travelling outside Lagos.

Akinbiyi said TRACE operatives got to the scene of the accident at 6.30am and together with personnel of the Federal Road Safety Corps removed the wreckages of the vehicles and corpse.