Two persons were crushed to death at the wee hours
of Saturday when a speeding trailer lost control and ran into a residential
house at Port Harcourt-Airport Road, Igwuruta-Ali, near Port Harcourt, Rivers
State capital. The trailer belonging to a dominant indigenous cement
manufacturer was fully loaded with cement and was heading to Port Harcourt when
the unfortunate accident happened.
An eye-witness, who gave his name as elder Chikwe,
told Sunday Sun at scene of the incident that the trailer was speeding when it
suddenly lost control, brushed another trailer with registration number Bayelsa
XE 653 BRC parked by the roadside. According to Chikwe, conductor of the parked
trailer whose name he gave as Sunday Aririuzo, was in front of the trailer
topping oil in the engine when the vibration of the collision lifted Aririuzo
and smashed him at the side of the road. He died on the spot. Continue to read after the cut:
Thereafter, the speeding trailer ran into a building
at the side of the road, broke through the front store and ran into an
apartment. The conductor of the trailer was said to have died while the driver
survived with injury. Occupants of the apartment, Mrs. Victoria Amaehule, and
her nine-year-old daughter, Faith, who were lucky to be alive, told Sunday Sun
how they miraculously escaped death. Victoria said she was awakened from a very
bad dream.
According to her, she tried to ignore the dream, but
a paralyzing cold suddenly gripped her. She became afraid and took her
nine-year-old daughter from the room to another apartment. Not quite 20 minutes
they left the room when the accident occurred. She said two front tyres of the
trailer rammed through the spot they had left.
It would be recalled that barely five months ago, a
speeding tanker loaded with petrol fell at Igwuruta at a roundabout and burst
into flames, a living camp was set ablaze and six persons, including a family
of four sleeping in their rooms were roasted, while several buildings were
burnt.
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