British former heavyweight boxing champion Anthony Joshua has been involved in a car accident in Nigeria’s Ogun State that killed two people, local police say.
Joshua, 36, sustained minor injuries when his car collided with another vehicle on the Lagos-Ibadan expressway on Monday, the Ogun State Police Command said, adding that he was taken to the hospital and they are investigating the cause of the accident. Joshua could not immediately be reached for comment. Witness Adeniyi Orojo told the Nigerian newspaper The Punch that Joshua was travelling in a Lexus that collided with a stationary vehicle.
“Joshua was seated behind the driver with another person beside him,” he told the newspaper. “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.”