Truck crushes 3 to death in Nsukka, damage vehicles queuing for petrol

A tipper truck loaded with sharp sand has crushed three victims to death along the University of Nigeria, Nsukka, UNN, road in Nsukka Local Government Area of Enugu State, yesterday.

According to eyewitness accounts, the truck was descending the sloppy road from the Total Roundabout-UNN Road when the driver allegedly experienced brake failure leading to the fatal accident.

Another eyewitness who identified himself as Gabriel stated that the first victim of the accident was a plastic vendor who  he said was crushed to death by the truck.

He also said “An okada man carrying two passengers saw the truck and jumped off his motorcycle. While the okada man was saved, the truck also crushed the two passengers he was carrying to death. The motorcycle was equally rammed beneath the truck,” he said.

Our Reporter gathered that about five vehicles queuing for petrol at an NNPC petrol station within the axis were equally damaged.

A driver of UNN shuttle who escaped the accident by the skin of teeth said that it was only God who spared his life, adding that he alighted from his taxi to ease himself shortly before the incident.

It was equally learnt that so many others sustained various degree of injury and were rushed to hospitals within the vicinity.

Meanwhile, the driver of the truck was said to have escaped unhurt during the accident as his whereabouts is still unknown at the time of filing this report.