Reports from Owerri, Imo State, confirm that a truck driver, whose identity is yet to be made public, was, Friday morning, killed by his own truck.
The diver was said to be speeding when the incident happened along the Portharcourt road, Owerri.
Even though his speed contributed, largely, to the tragic incident, eye witnesses were quick to, also, blame the construction company handling the road.
The late driver was said to be unaware of a deep hole dug across the road by the company, and accidentally, ran into it because there was no road sign to warn motorists.
“The spot was without any caution by the construction company handling the road reconstruction and the driver mistakenly ran into the grave and fell off of his truck, shattering the windscreen of the truck, and was thereafter crushed to death by the same truck”, said an eye witness
Eyewitnesses called on the contractors to always put signs of caution wherever they are working to avoid a re-occurence of the tragic incident.
