File: Accident scene
The Lagos State Traffic Management Authority has attributed the death of three Lagos State University of Science and Technology students in a Saturday accident to brake failure of a truck.
Sunday PUNCH gathered that the incident caused a multi-vehicle collision along Powerline Junction, inward Ikorodu Roundabout, Lagos State.
LASTMA spokesperson Taofiq Adebayo, who confirmed the incident, said the accident also left seven other people with varying degrees of injuries.
According to Adebayo, the crash occurred when the driver of a sand-laden tipper truck lost control due to mechanical brake failure, ramming into other vehicles along the busy corridor.
“In an incident of profound tragedy that cast a pall of grief over the Ikorodu metropolis, three promising LASUST students — two males and one female — lost their lives instantaneously in a fatal multiple-vehicle collision at Powerline Junction, before Aleje, inward Ikorodu Roundabout,” he said.
Adebayo added that seven others, including tricycle operators, sustained grievous injuries. Punch
