Lagos: Driver, 69, crushes 10-year-old to death with vehicle

• The deceased and his father were standing on a culvert around Doyin bus stop at about 8:30 a.m. on Sunday before the driver crashed into the deceased and smashed her skull

One Waidi Saheed has allegedly killed a 10-year-old girl after crushing her with his vehicle at the Iganmu-Mile 2 Expressway in Lagos State.

The 69-year-old commercial bus driver reportedly crushed the minor, simply identified as Chukwudi, to death after viciously ramming into her at full speed.

It was also gathered that the driver of the Nissan Coastal commercial bus, with registration number JJE-134 XK, has since been arrested by the police

According to Punch, the deceased and his father were standing on a culvert around Doyin bus stop at about 8:30 a.m. on Sunday before the driver crashed into the deceased and smashed her skull.

“One Bernard said he was going to church with his children at about 7 a.m., and while standing on a culvert at the Doyin bus stop along the Iganmu-Mile 2 Expressway. A Nissan Coastal commercial bus with registration number JJE-134 XK driven by one Waidi Saheed, aged 65, who was alleged to be driving at high speed, hit his son, aged 10, and smashed his skull, and he died instantly,” the newspaper quoted a police source as saying.

The source added that some hoodlums attacked the police officers with bottles and stones while they were evacuating the corpse.

The officers were able to disperse them when the patrol teams arrived to provide backup.

“In the course of evacuating the corpse, some miscreants attacked them with stones and bottles, and the officers were able to repel them after the patrol teams came for reinforcement.

The state command Police Public Relations Officer, Benjamin Hundeyin, confirmed the incident.

He added that the corpse had been taken to the morgue at the Yaba General Hospital and that both the driver and the vehicle were in police custody.

“The corpse has been taken to the morgue at the Yaba General Hospital. The driver was later arrested, and the accident vehicle is in police custody. The investigation is ongoing.