Over nine hundred
passengers escaped death on Friday morning when a 10-coach Iddo-bound
train rammed into a truck at Ilupeju Railway Crossing near Oshodi,
Lagos.
The accident, which occurred at about 7.30 am, led to traffic gridlock on the Ilupeju/Oshodi Road for several hours.
The News Agency of Nigeria reports that each of the coaches has 90 seats, but they were usually overloaded.
The loaded trailer had crashed into the double barriers on the railway crossing shortly before the train arrived.
On seeing the
approaching train, the driver jumped out of the trailer and ran away.
The train then dragged the truck for some distance, scattering the goods
inside it — which were mostly empty cartons of Malta Guinness drink –
along the track.
The dragging of the truck also led to the damaging of some vehicles parked along the rail track by auto mechanics.
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