Two Die As Anthony Joshua Survives Car Crash In Nigeria

Anthony Joshua survived a car crash in Nigeria that killed two people. Local reports say his vehicle hit a parked lorry on the Lagos-Ibadan expressway near Makun. He came out with cuts and bruises, nothing career-ending, but it’s the kind of moment that resets a fighter’s head.

Video from the scene shows him shirtless, glass everywhere, sitting in the dust beside a wrecked Lexus. No entourage, no camera crew — just shock. Emergency crews moved him to a response van, where he spoke quietly with officers.

According to eyewitness Deniyi Orojo, the vehicle was part of a small convoy. Joshua sat in the back seat. One person beside him. Another up front. A separate security vehicle followed behind.

The Lexus hit a parked lorry.

Two people in the vehicle died instantly.

Orojo said he was among the first to reach the wreckage. He described broken glass, twisted metal, confusion. Emergency workers arrived minutes later. Joshua was alive, conscious, and removed from the scene. The others weren’t as lucky.

Authorities are still piecing together how it happened. The Federal Road Safety Corps arrived. Police acknowledged the incident but offered no formal statement beyond “we are investigating.” No timeline. No clarity.

Joshua’s been trying to reassemble momentum. The Franklin fight. The Helenius stoppage. The Jake Paul bout in Miami last week. All part of a controlled rebuild. Measured risk. Limited chaos.

This wasn’t part of the plan.

Joshua was hovering in position. Not at the front of the line, but close enough to matter. One more solid performance and his name stays in rotation. Promoters don’t wait. Divisions don’t pause. Sanctioning bodies don’t care about circumstances.

Fighters can come back from knockdowns. From losses. From bad nights.

What’s harder to recover from is disruption. A broken routine. A nervous system rattled outside the ring. The kind of incident that sits in your head during camp, not your body.

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Anthony Joshua reportedly involved in a car crash in Ogun State. pic.twitter.com/BSr9ANgpH6

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