{"id":82827,"date":"2026-02-17T08:12:32","date_gmt":"2026-02-17T08:12:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=82827"},"modified":"2026-02-17T08:12:32","modified_gmt":"2026-02-17T08:12:32","slug":"trailer-crash-at-tipper-garage-junction-kills-three-injures-four","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2026\/02\/17\/trailer-crash-at-tipper-garage-junction-kills-three-injures-four\/","title":{"rendered":"Trailer Crash at Tipper Garage Junction Kills Three, Injures Four"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Merciful Omoba<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>At least three persons were confirmed dead on Tuesday morning after a trailer loaded with cartons of Golden Noodles crashed at Tipper Garage Junction and fell onto two tricycles conveying passengers from Bwari.<\/p>\n<p>The accident occurred at about 8:30 a.m., according to eyewitnesses at the scene.<\/p>\n<p>Sources said four other passengers sustained serious injuries, including a pregnant woman who survived the crash but was badly hurt and rushed to hospital for urgent treatment.<\/p>\n<p>A newborn baby was also found dead at the scene, with authorities yet to confirm whether the infant was connected to any of the victims or injured survivors.<\/p>\n<p>The crash triggered panic around the junction, as bystanders struggled to contain the shock of the incident while emergency responders evacuated the injured.<\/p>\n<p>Authorities said investigations are ongoing to determine the cause of the accident.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Merciful Omoba At least three persons were confirmed dead on Tuesday morning after a trailer loaded with cartons of Golden Noodles crashed at Tipper Garage Junction and fell onto two tricycles conveying passengers from Bwari. The accident occurred at about 8:30 a.m., according to eyewitnesses at the scene. Sources said four other passengers sustained [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":82828,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[177,172],"tags":[59],"class_list":["post-82827","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-abuja-reports","category-news","tag-featured"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82827","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=82827"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82827\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":82829,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82827\/revisions\/82829"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/82828"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82827"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}