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Two escape death as container crushes bus
A bread seller, driving a bus and his motor boy on Tuesday escaped death by the whiskers in Ilasamaja, Mushin area of Lagos State when a container fell off a trailer onto his bus totally crushing it.
They were able to jump out of the bus before the incident, a situation which seems to have become recurrent in the state.
The driver, Sunday Eneche who said he was on his way to deliver bread to customers in Ojota, said the trailer was behind him when he saw the container tipping towards his direction.
According to him, “There was no way I could overtake the trailer because I noticed he was trying to avoid a pothole. I waited for the trailer to move forward. When I saw that the back tyre was trapped in the pothole, myself and the motor boy jumped out of the bus because it almost fell. The bus is not mine; I work with a bread company. I don’t really know if the (trailer) driver was taken to a hospital because I couldn’t think straight when the trailer fell. I can’t really tell what happened afterwards. There were no casualties.”
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An eyewitness, Ismail Omikunle, who described Eneche as “lucky”, noted that had the container trapped him inside the bus, he would not have survived.
Another witness Mr Goddy Obitolu said he saw people running when he looked and saw that the container had tipped to a corner.
“We shouted for the driver to come out and immediately the trailer fell but before then the driver called some people to help him push his car away from the trailer because his bus was also stuck and one of his back tyres was trapped in the pothole, at this point, the trailer was now falling so we shouted on them and they fled,” he said.
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