Truck kills motorcyclist, passenger on Lagos-Ibadan expressway

A motorcyclist and his passenger have been crushed to death in an accident involving a DAF truck and a motorcycle near a Conoil filling station on the Lagos-Ibadan expressway. The Public Relations Officer of the Traffic Compliance and Enforcement Corps (TRACE), Babatunde Akinbiyi, disclosed this yesterday in a terse statement he sent to our correspondent […]

A motorcyclist and his passenger have been crushed to death in an accident involving a DAF truck and a motorcycle near a Conoil filling station on the Lagos-Ibadan expressway.

The Public Relations Officer of the Traffic Compliance and Enforcement Corps (TRACE), Babatunde Akinbiyi, disclosed this yesterday in a terse statement he sent to our correspondent in Abeokuta.

Akinbiyi blamed the accident on excessive speeding by the truck driver and loss of control of his vehicle registration number JJJ 472 XP.

“The truck hit the motorcycle with no registration number from the back, killing the motorcyclist and his passenger on the spot,” he said.

He added that the truck driver survived the accident, while the corpses of the deceased were deposited at the morgue of the Olabisi Onabanjo University Teaching Hospital, Sagamu, Ogun State.