6 year-old boy dead, many severely injured in Lagos-container accident

A six-year-old boy has been reported dead while other persons have sustained severe injuries in the fatal accident that happened at about 10 am in Iyana-Isolo under-bridge, Lagos State.

Report has it that a father, his two children and other commuters were waiting for a danfo bus at the Iyana-Isolo bus stop to take them to where they were heading, when a speeding container lost control.

The ugly scenario has left many persons injured as the container fell the side of a 6-year-old boy who was a little distance from his father as at when the container fell and severely injured his father, sister, and other commuters who were waiting for bus at the bus stop.

An eyewitness who sells drinks very close to the bus stop, Mrs. Feyin while narrating how the incident occurred, said: “The container was on speed coming from Cele while the danfo bus was loading his passengers and immediately the danfo-driver drove in without checking his side mirror, the container driver lost control of his steering and the container tumbled while some commuters who were standing at the bus stop, fell on the gutter, and a six-year-old boy died at the spot. His sister and father sustained injuries and four vehicles were condemned

“We could not take pictures because everyone at the scene was weeping over the ugly incident, my brother, Baba Sewa who is one of the Agberos was the one who rescued some of the commuters and when he brought out the boy from the gutter he shook his head and said the boy is dead”.

Another source who witnessed the incident narrated how she, her husband, and her daughter escaped the ghastly accident.

According to her, “only one person was seen dead and the actual reason for this accident was a family of three who stopped a moving danfo bus while a container was on motion behind the danfo bus and could not control his speed when the danfo bus stopped to pick the family, it was in the process that the container hit the danfo bus that led to some of us sustaining this injury”

While reacting to the incident, Isolo-police division that says the remaining commuters who were severely injured, as well as both drivers, have been taken hospitalized at the Isolo General Hospital for necessary treatment.

Only the boy has been reported dead for now.

The Lagos State Emergency Management Agency, LASEMA, has mobilized its officials to take the container and other damaged vehicle from the road.