An accident involving the rare tomato commodity has occurred in the commercial city of Lagos state.
The accident scene
Three heavy duty trucks were involved in a ghastly auto accident this morning, Thursday, 2nd of June, 2016.
The accident occurred in the early hours of Thursday morning along Oko-Fikki bus stop along LASU- Isheri Road, Igando. A heavy duty trailer, a LAWMA waste truck and a truck carrying tomatoes were involved in the collision.
An eye witness confirmed to a reporter that the waste bin truck was trying to enter into the trash site, where he would empty his bin, and both truck with sachet tomato and fuel tanker were on top speed.
This led to the collossion with the LAWMA truck. It remains unclear if any lives were lost in the accident although men of the Lagos state emergency service were at scene as at the time of filing this report.
It was gathered that he driver of the truck with sachet tomato has since been taken to the hospital, while rescue efforts continue to bring out the motorboy and military escort of the truck with sachet tomato.
The accident has led to massive traffic on LASU-Isheri Road.