{"id":76791,"date":"2025-10-16T14:44:23","date_gmt":"2025-10-16T14:44:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=76791"},"modified":"2025-10-16T14:44:23","modified_gmt":"2025-10-16T14:44:23","slug":"two-die-as-container-laden-trailer-crushes-tricycle-in-onitsha","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/10\/16\/two-die-as-container-laden-trailer-crushes-tricycle-in-onitsha\/","title":{"rendered":"Two Die as Container-Laden Trailer Crushes Tricycle in Onitsha"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Adenike Lawal<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Two men were killed on Thursday morning when a container-laden trailer fell on a tricycle along the Owerri-Onitsha expressway in Anambra State.<\/p>\n<p>The accident, which occurred around 8:20 a.m., happened as the trailer tried to navigate a bad section of the road.<\/p>\n<p>The container reportedly detached and crashed onto the tricycle carrying four passengers.<\/p>\n<p>Two died on the spot, while two others escaped unhurt.<\/p>\n<p>Eyewitnesses blamed the crash on the poor condition of the road.<\/p>\n<p>FRSC Sector Commander, Bridget Asekhauno, confirmed the incident, saying officials from the Upper Iweka Outpost and the Police responded swiftly to clear the wreckage and restore traffic.<\/p>\n<p>She noted that both vehicles lacked registration numbers, complicating identification.<\/p>\n<p>Asekhauno urged motorists, particularly heavy-duty drivers, to exercise caution on dilapidated routes to prevent further tragedies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Adenike Lawal &nbsp; Two men were killed on Thursday morning when a container-laden trailer fell on a tricycle along the Owerri-Onitsha expressway in Anambra State. The accident, which occurred around 8:20 a.m., happened as the trailer tried to navigate a bad section of the road. The container reportedly detached and crashed onto the tricycle [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":76792,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76791","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76791","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76791"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76791\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76793,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76791\/revisions\/76793"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/76792"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}