[Warnebald]

No fewer than 15 persons were crushed to death in the early hours of Thursday at the foot of Niger Bridge in the commercial city of Onitsha, when a truck loaded with two 40-feet containers lost control and fell on some busses.

According to eyewitnesses, the multiple accidents occurred when some persons allegedly collecting emblem fees for the Anambra State government attempted to forcefully stop the truck which was coming from the Asaba end of the Bridge. The truck with registration number XM 858 MUS lost control and ran into other oncoming vehicles.

The accident involved seven other vehicles, four of which were commercial buses and three private vehicles leaving Onitsha for Asaba when the incident occurred.

Mrs. Rose Iwuno, one of the survivors of the mangled buses said the accident would have been avoided, if the tax collectors had not accosted the truck driver.

[Spiffyfable]

Got the wicked brothers of the East

[xthabeast]

There must be more to this story as it appears that someone has stolen their flipflops.

[toben74]

hmmm

[p4irs]

hmm long story, minimum imaging

[kellyhound]

some more.

Information showed that the 40 ft container fell off from the truck when the driver lost control of the vehicle and skidded off the road.

The vehicle was said to have rammed into one of the heavy pillars on the bridgehead and somersaulted, causing the containers to fall on some other vehicles.

An eyewitness, Mrs. Rose Iwuno, a survivors in one of the mangled buses, said the accident was avoidable, adding that if the urchins had not accosted the truck driver, the accident would not have happened.

She said: “We were going to Asaba through the other lane but suddenly, our driver noticed that the driver of the truck with two containers, which was coming into Onitsha, was trying to control his truck. Our driver tried to escape it but it was already very late, other vehicles were at both sides and even at the back.

“Then, most of us passed out but what I could remembers was a heavy sound, that was when one of the containers from the truck fell off and crushed a bus in front of us before rolling down towards our own bus.

She said some of the victims were dismembered when the container fell on them, while others fell into the ditch as one of the victims who was still trapped under the container gasping for breathe but could not be helped.

At the time of the accident, no Federal Road Safety Corps official was on ground to assist the victims to nearby hospitals or mortuary, despite the fact that the accidents occurred right in front of the Onitsha unit of the FRSC.

The incident took another dimension when angry mob went on rampage and set the make-shift office of the Emblem collectors ablaze, while the urchins took to their heels.

It took the intervention of sympathizers and workers of the Consolidated Construction Company, CCC, who brought their heavy equipment, to lift the container and evacuate the dismembered bodies of the victims to an undisclosed mortuary, while the injured were rushed to hospitals.

[LERK]

[dean mclean]

This just proves that tax collectors are dicks

[Faline]

[wolfie]

Ten toes up and ten toes down. Big fat asses going........