Tragedy as two roadside ticketers crushed as truck loses brake

Two roadside ticket-masters have been crushed to death by a truck which rammed into them at Ojuore, along the Ota-Idiroko road in Ogun State.

The State Traffic Compliance and Enforcement (TRACE) Corps confirmed that the incident occurred at around 6pm on Saturday.

The truck reportedly lost control as a result of brake failure and veered off the road, killing the two ticketers.

According to the spokesman of the State Traffic Compliance and Enforcement Corps, Babatunde Akinbiyi, said the driver of the truck, marked LAR 13 XB, was driving from Atan Ota towards Sango under bridge, on the Lagos-Abeokuta expressway.

The arrested truck driver (name withheld) explained: “on getting to Ojuore roundabout, the truck developed a mechanical fault which resulted in brake failure. It lost control and thereafter rammed into three persons.”

Those killed were the transport union ticketers standing by the roadside.

“The truck rammed into three ticket collectors by the roundabout, killing two in the process while the third was injured,” Akinbiyi added.

Source said the families of the deceased victims had retrieved their corpses for burial, “while the injured one resorted to self-medication, since the injury was not severe.”