As we’ve been reporting, authorities in Nigeria say Anthony Joshua has been involved in a car accident in which two other people have been killed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Pictures of the heavyweight boxer sitting topless at the back of a car, surrounded by what appears to be broken glass, have been posted online.<\/p>\n\n\n\n According to local media, Joshua was in the back of a vehicle when it collided with a stationary truck.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The accident reportedly took place on the busy Lagos-Ibadan expressway on Monday morning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In social media videos from the site of the accident, the 36-year-old can be seen grimacing as he attempts to exit the car wreckage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Eyewitness Adeniyi Orojo tells Nigerian newspaper The Punch that a Lexus and Pajero were involved in the crash.<\/p>\n\n\n\n “Joshua was seated behind the driver, with another person beside him,” he tells the newspaper.<\/p>\n\n\n\n “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.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n We’ve just had a statement from the Ogun State Police Command, which confirms two people died in the crash which also injured Anthony Joshua.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Joshua and other injured people have been taken to “an undisclosed hospital”.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Nigerian authorities say British heavyweight boxer Anthony Joshua has been involved in a car crash on the Ogun\u2013Lagos state expressway.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The 36-year-old has family roots in Sagamu, a town in Ogun State, south-west Nigeria.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Police confirm to the news media that Joshua had minor injuries but is “fine”.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Photos and videos online show what appears to be a damaged car.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Local media reports say two people died in the crash.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Hours before the crash, at roughly 08:30 GMT (09:30 local time), Joshua posted a video to his Instagram of him playing table tennis with another man.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":25841,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[25,4,5,18,3,7],"tags":[3244,2626,3250,3243,3242],"class_list":["post-25840","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","category-featured","category-international","category-lifestyle","category-naija-news","category-sports","tag-aj","tag-anthony-joshua","tag-british-heavyweight-boxer","tag-car-accident","tag-sagamu"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.funminews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/image-114.png?fit=548%2C308&ssl=1","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.funminews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25840","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.funminews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.funminews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.funminews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.funminews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25840"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.funminews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25840\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25844,"href":"https:\/\/www.funminews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25840\/revisions\/25844"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.funminews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25841"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.funminews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.funminews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.funminews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.funminews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Screenshot-2025-12-29-at-10-13-26-Anthony-Joshua-injured-in-Nigeria-car-crash-with-two-others-dead-BBC-News-1.png?fit=548%2C246&ssl=1\")
<\/figure>\n\n\n\nTwo vehicles involved in crash, witness tells Nigerian media <\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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<\/figure>\n\n\n\nTwo people dead, with Joshua taken to hospital – police <\/h3>\n\n\n\n
Anthony Joshua injured in car crash in Nigeria – two others reportedly dead <\/h3>\n\n\n\n