A logistics company truck on Tuesday hit a soldier at Orile bus stop in Shagamu, Lagos state.
Gatekeepers News reports that the soldier was fatally hit by the truck driver who was trying to flee from racketeers and died at the scene of the accident.
The racketeers were extorting money from commercial bus drivers at the Orile end of the Lagos-Badagry Expressway.
The truck driver however recklessly drove away from the scene, disregarding the havoc it had caused.
Other soldiers present at the accident scene immediately pursued the truck and apprehended the driver at the Mile 2 bus stop but the truck’s assistant driver had escaped.
According to a trader at Orile, Sola James “The truck’s back tyre crushed the soldier’s head. I couldn’t bear to look at the body again.”
Another eyewitness, a vulcanizer in the area said that the deceased soldier was on his motorcycle when the truck hit him.
Lagos State’s Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO), SP Benjamin Hundeyin, confirmed that the soldiers took both the truck driver and truck to their barracks.
Hundeyin said “After the incident, the DPO of Orile Police Station and his men visited the scene and saw the soldier’s body. The soldiers returned with the truck and driver but took them and the soldier’s body back to their barracks”
