18 Children Escape Unhurt As Truck Crashes Into Their School Bus

18 nursery and primary school children escaped unhurt after a truck crashed into their school bus. The incident occurred at Okota Lagos state.

The Sun reports:

According to an eye witness the truck was trying to avoid some other tankers that were parked along the road, thereby narrowing it to a single lane. In the process, the truck hit the school bus that was filled with children on their way to school.

According to him, as a result of the accident, all the doors of the bus became forcefully locked, leaving the terrified children screaming and weeping uncontrollably. They had to be rescued through the window.

Prince Nixon Okwara, Chairman of Ago Phase Two United Forum, the umbrella organisatrion of all the estates in the area, on Ago-Okota Road, said that was not the first time such was happening on the road, he recalled that sometime ago, a container fell on the car of a young couple driving on the road and crushed the duo to death while they were going to church for a wedding ceremony.

He said the situation was worse at night when trucks and tankers were usually parked on both sides of the road, thereby reducing the road to one lane and causing accidents and serious traffic problem.

Another resident of the area, Moses Onwughalu, said since the end of the tenure of former Governor Babatunde Raji Fashola, the contractors handling the Ago Palace Way have withdrawn their services probably because they were not sure if his successor would want to continue with the road project.

According to him, this had worsened the state of the road as the graded parts had turned into craters.

He called on Governor Ambode to bring the contractors back, adding that the road was very important to residents of the area and the state in general.

He also appealed to the governor to exercise his powers in clearing the road of the menace of tanker drivers.