A yet-to-be-identified truck driver on
Wednesday morning got electrocuted after his trailer hit a high tension
wire while trying to enter the Jakande Estate, in the Isolo area of
Lagos.
Residents of the area, who spoke with our correspondent, said the incident happened around 8am.
Commercial activities were grounded in
the area as residents, commercial motorcyclists and traders besieged the
scene of the accident.
The chairman of the commercial
motorcyclists in the Jakande Estate, who identified himself simply as
Aremu, said the truck driver was trying to enter the estate to take a
consignment of woods.
He said the victim, whose corpse had
since been taken to the morgue, was in company with two others who sat
with him in the front seat of the truck.
Aremu said that when the truck suddenly
stopped while trying to approach the gate, the driver poked his head to
see what was blocking the truck and mistakenly placed his hands on a
metallic part of the truck.
He said, “He didn’t know that the front
of the truck had touched a high tension wire, the driver, who was seated
with two others in the trailer, noticed that the truck suddenly got
stuck. So he poked out his head out of the window. While he was trying
to open the door, he got electrocuted. He struggled to get out of the
car but his strength failed him. He finally hit his head on the
pavement. His clothes was already burnt.
“Meanwhile,
the other two , having seen what happened to the truck driver managed
to escape through the other door but sustained injuries on their arms.
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