COMMERCIAL DRIVER CRUSHED PREGNANT WOMAN TO DEATH IN LAGOS [PICTURE]

A driver of a commercial bus with plate number XQ 521 KTU on Saturday crushed a pregnant woman to death in the Mangoro, Lagos area of the Lagos-Abeokuta Expressway while her one and half year-old daughter sustained minor bruises in the face.

Information reaching Shybellmedia has it that Mrs. Itodo Ellen, who was said to be seven months pregnant, lived with her husband on Babapanmile Street, Mangoro Estate before the accident.

Itodo was going for antenatal when she was crushed to death.

It was said that the driver fled from the scene immediately the accident occurred, leaving the bus behind.

Source revealed that a bus driver had waited for the 24-year-old woman to cross to the other side of the road.

He added that another oncoming bus on top speed overtook the waiting bus and slammed into the woman who also had her baby on her shoulder.

Before people got to the spot, the driver had taken to his heels. She died immediately, but her daughter survived and was taken to a nearby pharmacy.

The husband, Itodo Onoh, however, said on Sunday that the girl had been transferred to a family hospital for intensive treatment.

Commenting on the incident, he said, “She is my life. I just pray that her only daughter get well soon because I was told she also has a dislocation.”