A loaded truck with the registration number: GGE 624 YJ on Saturday morning lost control and fell off Agege Bridge inward Abule Egba, Lagos crushing two commercial volkswagen buses.
According to a statement signed by the LASTMA Director, Public Affairs and Enlightenment, Taofiq Adebayo, preliminary inquiries “suggest that the truck driver, who suffered grievous fractures in both hands, lost control of the vehicle while navigating the Pen Cinema Bridge. Consequently, the truck plunged from the bridge, landing on the two commercial buses stationed beneath.”
Adebayo added “LASTMA officers, responding with remarkable alacrity, successfully extricated the severely injured driver and immediately entrusted him to officers of the Elere Police Division.”
The driver according to the statement was subsequently conveyed to the General Hospital, Ile-Epo for medical attention.
Adebayo explained that in a bid to safeguard other road users and forestall secondary incidents, LASTMA personnel secured the accident site by cordoning off the area and diverting vehicular traffic.
Thereafter, operatives of the LASEMA Response Unit expeditiously cleared the wreckage, thereby restoring unimpeded traffic flow along the axis..
