{"id":82700,"date":"2026-02-12T12:33:37","date_gmt":"2026-02-12T12:33:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=82700"},"modified":"2026-02-12T12:33:37","modified_gmt":"2026-02-12T12:33:37","slug":"man-killed-wife-injured-as-granite-truck-crushes-car-in-lagos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2026\/02\/12\/man-killed-wife-injured-as-granite-truck-crushes-car-in-lagos\/","title":{"rendered":"Man Killed, Wife Injured as Granite Truck Crushes Car in Lagos"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Patrick Idowu<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A man has been killed while his wife sustained critical injuries after a granite-laden truck toppled onto their Toyota saloon car along the Lekki\u2013Ajah Expressway, Lagos, on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>The Lagos State Traffic Management Authority (LASTMA) said the crash occurred at Eleko Junction.<\/p>\n<p>LASTMA General Manager, Olalekan Bakare-Oki, said preliminary reports indicated the truck, coming from the Epe axis, allegedly suffered brake failure while approaching the junction and lost control.<\/p>\n<p>He said the truck veered off its lane, collided with the car travelling from Ajah towards Epe, and toppled onto it, crushing the vehicle.<\/p>\n<p>Bakare-Oki said the driver of the car was trapped in the wreckage but was later pulled out by LASTMA officials, the Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) and bystanders.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUnfortunately, he was pronounced dead at the scene. His wife, who was in the front passenger seat, sustained life-threatening injuries and was rescued for urgent medical attention,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>He added that the truck driver fled the scene, while police from the Akodo Division provided security during rescue operations.<\/p>\n<p>In a separate incident, Bakare-Oki said a 33,000-litre fuel tanker caught fire around midnight near Ile-Zik inward Magboro on the Lagos-Abeokuta Expressway, but the fire was contained by LASTMA and the Lagos State Fire and Rescue Service.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Patrick Idowu A man has been killed while his wife sustained critical injuries after a granite-laden truck toppled onto their Toyota saloon car along the Lekki\u2013Ajah Expressway, Lagos, on Thursday. The Lagos State Traffic Management Authority (LASTMA) said the crash occurred at Eleko Junction. LASTMA General Manager, Olalekan Bakare-Oki, said preliminary reports indicated the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":82701,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-82700","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\/82700","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\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=82700"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82700\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":82702,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82700\/revisions\/82702"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/82701"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}