No fewer than six people lost their lives and ten others sustained fatal injuries in Jos Plateau State, when a lorry driver lost control and rammed into vehicles and commercial tricycles with passengers on board.
The sad incident occurred on Thursday at about 7:00 pm when a driver of a MAN DIESEL lorry conveying maize from Saminaka in Kaduna State to Onitsha suddenly lost control as a result of brake failure at Farin Gada area of Jos North local government area of the state, causing confusion and pandemonium in the area.
An eye witness said while the driver was struggling to control the vehicle, it rammed into three tricycles loaded with passengers and three other cars parked along the same road and crushed them adding that six people persons died on the spot while ten others sustained various degree of injuries.
It was further learnt that it took men of the Special Task Force and other Samaritans who dashed to the scene of the incident more than one two hours before the bodies of those trapped under the lorry could be retrieved.
Tribune Online further gathered that three passengers died in the tricycles while another three also gave up the ghost in a car believe to have been occupied by a driver, his fiancé and one other passengers.
However, the Police Public Relation Officer, Plateau State Command DSP M. T. Tyopev confirmed that three people died in the accident adding the driver of the lorry Fatai Onaolapo has been arrested and presently helping the police to unravel the cause of the accident.
According him, the preliminary investigations carried out revealed that the driver who was coming from Saminaka in Kaduna State was heading to Onitsha with a lorry load of maize adding those at the scene attributed the accident to over speeding.
He said those who sustained injuries are presently receiving treatment at Bingham University Teaching Hospital Jos.
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