Metro learnt that the two victims, who were in a Toyota Camry with the figure plate, YLA 121 BJ, were at a checkpoint while they were crushed by their colleague, who throng a Toyota Avalon, with numeral plate, YAB 366 JY.
The three officials were so they say fond of to the Seme Border Command, Lagos.
While the two crushed customs officers died on the spot, the driver of the Avalon was understood to be unconscious at the Intensive sensitivity part of the Badagry broad-spectrum Hospital, everyplace he was being paid treatment.
Our correspondent gathered that officials of the central highway security Corps, led by the Badagry component Commander, Fatai Bakare, deposited the skeleton of the dead in a morgue.
A witness believed the crash was caused by a burst tyre.
He said, “The occasion happened around 7.45am on Saturday at Gbaji checkpoint. The customs officers were crushed to mortality by a Toyota Avalon motivated by a new customs police man of the matching command.
“His car was descending the Gbaji channel and bearing for Seme while one of his tyres burst. He forlorn control, in this manner distribution the two officers to their death.”
The customs piece commander, Bakare, however, believed the smash up was caused by speeding.
He said, “The customs officers were inside their vehicle at one of the checkpoints on the Lagos-Seme Road. The driver of the Avalon was on eminent race as soon as he gone down into them. He veered off the toll road and rammed into them. The two customs officers died on the spot, little the guy guilty for the misfortune is in a coma.”
The civic Relations police officer of the NCS, Seme Command, Saidu Abdulahi, fixed the episode and identified the dead as Usman and Kabiru.
“The driver of the other vehicle, George, is currently on admission at a general hospital.”
A doctor at the Badagry General Hospital said on Sunday that the driver of the Avalon was still in a coma, adding that he was being monitored.
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