By Godfrey Bivbere

Drivers of two cars, a Sienna and a Camry, escaped death when a truck laden with 1 x 20 feet container fell on the two vehicles at Tin-Can Island, Apapa, Lagos, yesterday.

A truck fell on stationary Sienna and Camry cars yesterday at Tin-can Island to Apapa, Lagos yesterday.

An eyewitness told Saturday Vanguard  that the truck’s brakes failed while descending from the bridge linking Tin-can Island to Apapa just before the round-about.   The eyewitness said in an attempt to avoid hitting the vehicles that were in front of him, the truck driver had claimed the pavement, causing the truck to tilt to the side.

On sighting the approaching truck the drivers of the cars got out of the vehicles before the tilting truck and its containers fell on them. As at the time Saturday Vanguard visited the scene, some security operatives from the Nigeria police, Nigerian Army and personnel of the Lagos State Emergency Management Agency (LASEMA) were on ground.