by Benson Agoha | International
A trailer plunged off a bridge in Lagos, Nigeria in the early hours of Thursday in what became a second of such incident in Africa's most populous nation.
The trailer - a 40 footer reportedly skidded off the road in Ijora as it drove out of Apapa. It was not laden with containers at the time and, and in another near-miss, no life was lost.
Ijora, small commercial hub, is home to high and low criss-crossing network of bridges, veering off a three way course that leads to and from Apapa, Lagos Island and Iganmu parts of Lagos.
Although the bridges are now very old, they remain hosts to trailers driving heavy goods to and from the Apapa Wharf.
Thursday's incident comes only one day after we reported a trailer falling of a bridge in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, flattening a car on the road in a near miss that cost no life.
Ijora has often been in the news for a sizeable share of road accidents involving trailers and other vehicles, around its network of bridges.
According to local reports, men of the Lagos State Transport Management Authority LASTMA and other agencies are working to take it off the road.
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