AS an eyewitness at the scene of late Friday night’s auto crash puts it, “it was a real… real close shave with death” for the taxi driver, Mr. Benjamin Ademuyiwa and his passenger.
The passenger, a middle- aged man, had hired Ademuyiwa’s Nissan Sunny Saloon car (registration number, XR 05 EPE), at the Ajao Estate Taxi Park, near the popular 7/8 Bus Stop, Murtala Muhammed International Airport Road. But the journey had barely started when the customer asked him to pull over so he could use an Automated Teller Machine (ATM) belonging to the Zenith Bank.
No sooner had he pulled in front of the bank, away from the traffic, than a Mercedes truck (registration number XB 368 LAR) fell on the cab, with Ademuyiwa escaping death by the whiskers.
Although, the cab appeared to be facing the wrong direction, it was clearly parked off the road. The driver, reportedly, had reclined backwards on the seat as he awaited his passenger’s return.
The driver of the truck, laden with frozen fish, was said to have lost control after one of the front tyres burst. He reportedly sustained injuries and was taken to the Kupa Medical Centre, Ajao Estate, and later to a military hospital at Oshodi by relatives.
Although the accident occurred late Friday night, the lorry had already been evacuated as at 7am yesterday when The Guardian visited the scene.
Ademuyiwa appeared dazed yesterday. His colleagues at the Ajao Estate Taxi Park said the matter has been reported to the police.
“He said he never saw it coming, as he relaxed in the vehicle, waiting for the passenger. In fact, he actually thought it was a Boko Haram bomb,” said a colleague, on behalf Ademuyiwa, who though present, remained speechless.
Efforts to encourage a shocked Ademuyiwa to give a personal account of the incident failed.
Common sense is indeed not common.
Posted: at 19-08-2012 06:29 AM (12 years ago) | Hero
Naijapals i greet una oo,... So if i buy an underwear dross 4 Omotola Jalade and Genevieve Nnaji , Nadia Buari, Uche Jombo,and Ini Edo, Tonto Dikeh , Mercy Johnson as a birthday gift, would you people say my mind is dirty ? Yes it is! or it's normal ? or una go ask how u take know dem size ? ? Naija una too much oo coffee wey I dey drink for hia comot for my nose as I read this.
Posted: at 19-08-2012 02:09 PM (12 years ago) | Gistmaniac
Amor1444 at 19-08-2012 07:45 PM (12 years ago) (m)
Quote from: BendelArmedRobb on 19-08-2012 02:09 PM
Naijapals i greet una oo,... So if i buy an underwear dross 4 Omotola Jalade and Genevieve Nnaji , Nadia Buari, Uche Jombo,and Ini Edo, Tonto Dikeh , Mercy Johnson as a birthday gift, would you people say my mind is dirty ? Yes it is! or it's normal ? or una go ask how u take know dem size ? ? Naija una too much oo coffee wey I dey drink for hia comot for my nose as I read this.
So after ur coffee drinking, na these babes pant come dey enter ur mind ehm? goodluck, if the thing wey bring u for this world no kill u, u kill am. Abeg Donatus give the butter for fridge make I take drink my gari, night don come.
Posted: at 19-08-2012 07:45 PM (12 years ago) | Upcoming
osarobo62 at 19-08-2012 10:41 PM (12 years ago) (m)
The headline says '''kills driver''' yet the story says driver escapes death. so who died in the accident. or have ILLITERATES taken over Naijapals now?
Posted: at 19-08-2012 10:41 PM (12 years ago) | Hero
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