Two Dead As Truck Crushes Okada Plying One-Way In Lagos
Two people have died after a truck crushed a motorcycle plying one-way by Barracks Bus-stop inward Iyana-Iba along Lagos-Badagry Expressway.
The Lagos State Traffic Management Authority (LASTMA) revealed this in a statement issued on Saturday by its Director, Public Affairs and Enlightenment Department, Adebayo Taofiq.
He said LASTMA operatives recovered the bodies trapped under an empty long ‘Man-Diesel’ truck by Barracks Bus-stop along the Lagos-Badagry Expressway, Lagos.
”While these two motorcycle passengers died instantly, the rider later died at a hospital around Satellites Town,” the statement read.
“While the truck driver ran away after the accident, policemen from Onireke Police Division took away the recovered two bodies.”
Taofiq stated that preliminary investigations disclosed that a truck driver while at top speed lost control as a result of a rear busted tyre and rammed into a motorcycle plying one-way by Barracks Bus-stop inward Iyana-Iba along Lagos-Badagry Expressway.
Ogunremi Olanrewaju, LASTMA Commander, Area D, who led the recovery operations and his team swiftly evacuated the truck and motorcycle off the road for an unhindered free-vehicular movement around the Expressway.
