A Dangote mixer truck has crushed a woman to d3ath in Abule Egba area of Lagos, Southwest Nigeria after the driver lost control due to brake failure
The truck, with registration number KANO MDB 531 XA, was said to have ramped on the woman inward Mobil Filling Station besides Jubilee Bridge opposite Zenith Bank on Monday.
The Director, Public Affairs and Enlightenment Department of LASTMA, Adebayo Taofiq in a statement said the body of the woman was evacuated from underneath the Dangote truck by officials of the Lagos State Traffic Management Authority (LASTMA).
He said the driver of the truck was immediately handed over to policemen from Oko-Oba Police Station.
According to him, preliminary investigations revealed that the mixer truck while on a high speed lost control as a result of a brake failure and that while trying to swerved into a drainage channel crushed an innocent woman to death.
