A 20-feet container-laden truck crushed a car around the Toyota bus stop on the Apapa-Oshodi expressway in Lagos.
In a statement issued on Thursday, Margaret Adeseye, director of the Lagos State Fire and Rescue Service, detailed that the accident occurred on Wednesday.
She said one of the two containers on the truck fell on the rear of the Lexus Jeep.
Adeseye said the service swiftly rescued the couple from the wreckage.
She added that the victims, including the truck driver, have been taken through trauma therapy to ascertain their well-being, with the “remains of the vehicle” cleared off the road.
“A male adult of about 45 years old and a female adult of about 37 years old (both names withheld) were rescued from the jaw of death by the Lagos State Fire and Rescue Service from a vehicle accident involving their Lexus Jeep 350 with registration number EKY 251 HW and a Mack Trailer with registration number BDG 513 XW conveying two containers of 20 feet each,” the statement reads.
“The accident, which was a visible call on the Isolo Fire Station of the Agency at about 18:35 hours Wednesday, at the busy Toyota bus stop on the Apapa—Oshodi Expressway inward Isolo, Lagos, had one of the containers accidentally fall on the rear side of the vehicle while on motion, prompting sympathisers to come to their aid before firefighters teamed up to bring them out of the accident unhurt.
“The remains of the vehicles had been cleared off the path of the highway by LASEMA after men of LASTMA cleared the ensuing traffic backlog with the support of the Nigeria Police from the Ilasamaja Division who had since brought the operations into conclusion.”
Accidents caused by container-laden trucks have become commonplace in Lagos, Nigeria’s commercial capital and nerve centre.
In November, a 40-feet container-laden truck fell on a car in the Mile 2 area of Lagos.
