Two people have been reported dead as an unspecified number of passengers sustained injury in an accident involving a moving train and a Lagos state Staff bus, on Thursday morning in the Shogunle area of Ikeja.
It was learned that the blue staff bus was trying to cross while the train was closed by in motion. The magnet on the train grabbed it from the PWD bus stop and dragged it to Shogunle where it stopped.
Eyewitnesses said the stubbornness of the bus driver who refuse to stop at the level Crossing when stopped was the primary cause of the mishap.
According to a witness, the accident happened when the keepers of NRC at that level Crossing stopped the driver from passing because of the incoming train and he refused. He thought he could pass before the coming of the train.”
