A man and his wife were on Wednesday, December 16, 2015 crushed to death by a truck at Mba Stareet, in Ajegunle area of Lagos State.
The truck conveying container was said to have failed brakes and ran over the unsuspecting couple in the late hours of the fateful day.
An eye witness, Ibrahim Adekoya, told Leadership on Friday, December 18, 2015 that the driver lost control of the vehicle after the brakes failed before the unfortunate incident.
Meanwhile, traffic policemen attached to Ajegunle police station moved swiftly to the scene and the vehicle was impounded while the driver was also arrested.
Adekoya blamed the problem on traffic gridlock at Apapa which made drivers of long vehicles to ply the route enroute Apapa.
The corpses have been taken to a general hospital mortuary.