A pair on Wednesday escaped dying upcoming a container fell on their Lexus Jeep on the Toyota bus forbid at the Apapa-Oshodi Limited-access highway.
The Director of the Lagos Climate Hearth and Rescue Carrier, Margaret Adeseye, in a commentary on Thursday, mentioned that the incident passed off within the night.
In line with her, the company won a misery name at about 6:35 pm and promptly spoke back to the scene, eminent to the rescue of the couple from the wreckage in their automobile.
She, alternatively, defined that the incident passed off upcoming the container by accident fell at the rear aspect of the 4-Wheel Power automobile presen in movement.
The commentary learn, “A male adult of about 45 years old and a female adult of about 37 years old (both names withheld) were rescued from the jaw of death by the Lagos State Fire and Rescue Service from a vehicle accident involving their Lexus Jeep 350 with registration number EKY 251 HW and a Mack Trailer with registration number BDG 513 XW conveying two containers of 20 feet each.”
The crash, which used to be a seeing name at the Isolo Hearth Station of the Company at about 18:35 hours Wednesday, on the busy Toyota bus forbid at the Apapa—Oshodi Limited-access highway inward Isolo, Lagos, had one of the most boxes by accident fall at the rear aspect of the automobile presen on movement, prompting sympathisers to come back to their backup earlier than firefighters teamed up in order them out of the crash unharmed.
Adeseye added that each sufferers have been joined by means of the trailer driving force who additionally escaped unscathed and used to be taken via shock remedy to determine their well-being.
“The remains of the vehicles had been cleared off the path of the highway by LASEMA after men of LASTMA cleared the ensuing traffic backlog with the support of the Nigeria Police from the Ilasamaja Division who had since brought the operations into conclusion,” the commentary added.
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