Blood Flows as Female Driver Loses Control, Crushes 8 People To Death In Lagos

Tragedy struck on Ilaje Road, in the Bariga area of Lagos State, after a female driver in a Land Cruiser Sport Utility Vehicle crushed as much as eight pedestrians to death.

Sadly, among the dead were a pregnant woman, two siblings, an old woman and a man returning from his place of work. Many others sustained varying degrees of injuries, including fractures and broken limbs in the accident which happened around 9pm on Saturday.

How did this mass killings happened?
According to Punch, the driver of the yet-to-be-identified woman left the vehicle for her near Majok Filling Station on Ilaje Road and had left for his house.

The woman, said to be staying on Adebisi Street, had barely taken the wheels to drive the SUV home when the incident occurred. The vehicle reportedly surged forward, crushing pedestrians and killing four of them on the spot.

Is it that she doesn't really know how to drive or what?

A set of nine injured people were reportedly taken to the Gbagada General Hospital, among whom two died; while another set of seven casualties were later recovered. It was learnt that two more corpses were found in the gutter on Sunday morning.

Angry youths were said to have gone to the scene, dragged the woman out of the SUV and beaten her up. She was about to be lynched when some policemen from the Bariga Police Division intervened.

The woman was to celebrate her birthday on Sunday and was going home to make preparations for the event before this very unfortunate accident.

A police source said the female driver was recuperating in a private hospital in the area.

He said, “The woman is wealthy, and she was to celebrate her birthday on Sunday. The mob stripped her to the underwear and beat her up. She is recuperating in a hospital; her husband has showed up at the police station... The police will invite the woman after her treatment.”