In late 2025, British heavyweight Anthony Joshua was injured in a car crash near Lagos that killed two of his closest friends and team‑mates. A BBC report, Anthony Joshua injured in Nigeria car crash that killed two team members, described how the Lexus he was riding in hit a stationary truck on the Lagos–Ibadan expressway, leaving Joshua with minor injuries and his long‑time colleagues Sina Ghami and Latif “Latz” Ayodele dead at the scene.
An Associated Press piece, Concerns over Nigeria’s roads after crash that injured boxer Anthony Joshua, tells it in wire‑service shorthand — excessive speed, improper overtaking, a burst tire, a parked truck — but even stripped of drama, the facts land hard.
Joshua wasn’t driving. Nigeria’s Federal Road Safety Corps says he was in the back seat of the Lexus on the Lagos–Ibadan expressway when it lost control during an overtake and ploughed into a stationary truck, the kind of collision that appears in their annual statistics with numbing regularity.
He spent two nights under observation at Lagoon Hospital in Lagos before being discharged, then beginning his recovery while also processing the fact that Ghami and Ayodele had died at the scene.
By early 2026, the crash had been turned into a set of charges and a court date. The driver, Adeniyi Mobolaji Kayode, was charged on four counts — dangerous driving causing death, reckless and negligent driving, driving without due care, and driving without a valid national license — while Joshua, always described as a passenger, was told to rest and recover and let the process run. The legal process will run its course; what lingers is the sense that this was one crash on a road millions of Nigerians still have to gamble with every day.