The accident which occurred inward Ikorodu involved a marked truck, an Accura MDS Wagon car with number plate LAGOS EPE 313 GL,

Toyota Venza, with number plate, JJJ 787 AE, a tricycle, and commercial motorcycle at about 1.00 pm.

The injured were the truck driver, motor boy, and six passengers.

According to the eyewitness account, the driver of the truck was journeying inward the Ikorodu axis when the vehicle suffered brake failure at the First Gate bus stop while in the same direction with the involved vehicles, tricycle, and motorcycle.

On noticing this, road users and residents were said to have scampered for safety but the involved were unlucky as the truck brushed them thereby inflicting some damages on them but the tricycle was damaged beyond repair while its passengers were all injured and were immediately rushed to a nearby hospital.

The truck driver was unconscious for a while before he was revived by sympathizers and thereafter taken to a nearby hospital.

However, he was said to have demonstrated a high level of experience to have averted massive destruction of lives and property by swerving unto the ditch side of the road

Arriving on the scene, a mild drama ensued as the tricyclist on noticing that the truck driver had been revived wanted to seize him by insisting that he replaces the damaged tricycle but immediately, sympathizers rose against him and ordered him out of the scene.

The owner of the Acura car who did not want his name in print said he was conveying his brother for health care services when the incident occurred.

One of the victims, a female was seen gasping for breath and was quickly rushed to the hospital.

Some residents of the area urged the government to find a lasting solution to the incessant accidents at the Okegbegun axis.