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UPDATED: Two dead as Anthony Joshua survives Lagos-Ibadan expressway crash
British-Nigerian former world boxing champion, Anthony Joshua, was involved in a road accident on Monday in Makun, Ogun State.
According to eyewitnesses report, the incident occurred along a busy highway of the Lagos-Ibadan expressway
Eyewitnesses report around past 11am on Monday morning.
The vehicle carrying Joshua, a Lexus Jeep with the number plate, KRD 850 HN, reportedly collided with a stationary truck under circumstances that are still being investigated.
According to reports, Joshua sustained minor injuries, but two people died on the spot.
Reports say the accident happened just before Danco Filling Station in Makun, before the Sagamu Interchange inward Ibadan axis of the road.
Two people reportedly died on the spot.
“It was a two-vehicle convoy: a Lexus SUV and a Pajero SUV. Joshua was seated behind the driver, with another person beside him. There was also a passenger sitting beside the driver, making four occupants in the Lexus that crashed. His security detail was in the vehicle behind them before the crash.
“Other eyewitnesses and I began the rescue and flagged down oncoming vehicles to assist. A few minutes after the crash, officials of the Federal Road Safety Corps arrived. The passenger beside the driver and the person beside Joshua died on the spot,” an eyewitness said.
Fans have flooded social media with messages of concern, while local authorities continue to investigate the cause of the crash.
Meanwhile, the Ogun State Police Command spokesperson, Oluseyi Babaseyi, who confirmed the crash, noted that “two died, while Joshua and one other have been hospitalised and are receiving treatment at a hospital that would not be disclosed.”