A tragedy occurred at the Eleme junction intercession of the Aba-Port Harcourt Expressway on Monday as a truck lost control and crushed a 40-year-old woman to death.
It was gathered that the truck was coming from Oyigbo, near Port Harcourt, to the city centre when the incident occurred at about 9 am.
An eye witness said the woman was on the back of a tricycle popularly known as Keke but that the rider escaped death by the whisker.
She stated, “She was inside a Keke when it happened. The truck failed to break, and before you people were running, but before the Keke could move, the truck hit the side the woman was in and divided her body