One person has been reported injured as an articulated truck fell off at Railway Crossing at Yaba, Lagos
This was disclosed in a report signed and forwarded to Lagos Panorama by the Permanent Secretary Lagos State Emergency Management Agency (LASEMA), Dr Olufemi Damilola Oke-Osanyintolu.
Dr. Oke-Osanyintolu stated that Upon arrival at the incident scene, an articulated truck laden with a 20ft container was found accidented at the railway crossing at the aforementioned location.
Further investigation revealed that the truck driver poorly navigated the bad sections of the road and as a result, the truck had overturned onto the rail tracks . No life was lost but an adult male passerby was injured as a result of the incident.
The Agency’s heavy duty fork lift has been dispatched to evacuate the truck off the rail track to eliminate a secondary train accident. Unfortunately the operation is being hampered by miscreants at the scene. Request for armed intervention by Nigeria Police has been made.
According to an update report by the PS, “accidented truck and container have both been recovered from the rail track on to a nearby layby. The axis is now safe for both rail and road traffic. Recovery operation concluded” he concluded.
