One particular person was on Friday killed in a deadly accident which occurred across the PDP Street Junction alongside the Isaac Boro Expressway in Yenagoa, the Bayelsa State capital.
The deceased was mentioned to be the motor boy of a truck that was concerned within the accident with a tipper and a tricycle popularly known as Keke.
A number of individuals, together with three feminine passengers and the Keke rider, in addition to the truck driver had been injured within the accident.
Some personnel of the Federal Street Security Fee arrived on the scene shortly afterward and evacuated the corpse of the sufferer.
The incident brought on visitors jam as automobiles had been restricted to at least one lane of the highway across the scene.
An eyewitness mentioned the deceased acquired trapped and was crushed underneath the truck after leaping down from the swerving car as the driving force tried to manage it after hitting the Keke and the tipper, which fell on the highway and spilled the diesel in its tank.
In response to the eyewitness, who didn’t need his identify to be talked about within the print, the truck driver maneuvered the car away from crashing into a petroleum station on the left aspect of the PDP Street earlier than it was pressured to a cease by the perimeter fence of a preferred rest bar on the suitable aspect the place it killed the conductor.
He mentioned, “The driving force of the tipper was attempting to make a U-turn on the junction when the truck, approaching the identical lane from the Opolo-Biogbolo aspect of the expressway, hit the tipper and the Keke.
“After hitting the tipper and the Keke, he curved his hand, perhaps he was attempting to manage the steering, and entered inside this (PDP) highway, and at last stopped right here (perimeter fence). Earlier than he might cease right here, the conductor tried to leap down, and the place he fell, there was no house for him to flee to wherever. So he died underneath the tyres.”
The tricycle rider, Melvin Goodnews, who survived the accident with the three feminine passengers he was carrying, mentioned he had slowed down and was ready for the tipper to show when the truck hit his Keke and it tumbled.
“All I can keep in mind is that my Keke tumbled and I used to be simply seeing tyres passing. If the truck didn’t hit the tipper, it might have killed all of us as a result of I used to be carrying three ladies inside my Keke and one among them has a giant reduce on her leg,” he mentioned.
Though the tipper driver was not seen on the scene of the accident, his motor boy, Eze Cashmir, mentioned that they had navigated the u-turn and had been ready for the opposite lane to clear when the truck out of the blue hit their car.
He mentioned, “As we had been attempting to show, out of the blue our car began staggering and I assumed that my driver had climbed the median, then there was stress. There was a success and we fell. I managed to return out from the window (of the fallen tipper). I managed to show off the engine and appeared for my cellphone and that of my driver.
“As I moved to the opposite aspect, individuals advised me that it was the lengthy truck that hit us and any individual is trapped underneath it.”