Mr Oke-Osanyintolu said the accident could be attributed to brake failure, loss of control of the truck after crashing into a BRT demarcation and pedestrian bridge pillar.
“The driver of the taxi claimed she was having a heated conversation with her fiance before alighting from the car.”
Peoples Gazette had earlier reported that the fire accident occurred Sunday afternoon at Iyana Oworo, inwards Third Mainland Bridge.
Construction workers were on site when the building collapsed, trapping the workers.
No fewer than four occupants of a car were trapped after a container fell off its carriage truck at the Ojuelegba bridge in Lagos on Sunday.
LASEMA has warned Lagos residents against causing a fallen fuel tanker at Oregun to explode through “ignition or exposure to any form of naked fire.”
Fire has razed a one-storey building in Ladipo Market in Lagos.
