A tanker driver yesterday crushed his conductor to death at the Liverpool area of Apapa in Lagos State .
The driver was said to have been attempting to reverse when he suddenly crushed the head of his conductor, identified as Saudu, who was watching the tanker from behind.
A police corporal attached to Apapa Police Station, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, said that immediately the accident occurred in the morning, police detectives at the scene arrested the driver.
A tanker driver yesterday crushed his conductor to death at the Liverpool area of Apapa in Lagos State .
The driver was said to have been attempting to reverse when he suddenly crushed the head of his conductor, identified as Saudu, who was watching the tanker from behind.
A police corporal attached to Apapa Police Station, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, said that immediately the accident occurred in the morning, police detectives at the scene arrested the driver.
Eyewitnesses said that the driver was driving towards Tin-can area through the Liverpool Bridge when he noticed traffic gridlock on the bridge.
The driver told Saudu, from Adamawa State, to alight and watch the back for him so that he would reverse the vehicle and pass through another road.
One of the eyewitnesses, who simply identified himself as Umoru, explained that the conductor went behind the vehicle but the driver suddenly reversed, crushing Saudu.
Weeping profusely, Saudu’s relation, who also simply identified himself as Abubakar, blamed the driver for being careless.
According to Abubakar, many people who saw the corpse of Saudu wept because the vehicle crushed his head.
The Divisional Police Officer in charge of the station, a Chief Superintendent of Police, Usman Ndanbabo, ordered policemen at the station to remove the corpse to a general
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