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.
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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