One Pikin, Four Others Nearly Die For Lagos Motor Crash

An eight-month-old baby narrowly escape death on Tuesday after one commercial bus jam four pedestrians for Otedola Bridge, inward Tollgate, for Lagos–Ibadan Expressway. LASTMA spokesperson, Taofik Adebayo, say di victims, including di woman wey carry di baby for back, dey try cross di expressway when one LT commercial bus, wey dey speed anyhow, run enter dem. Di impact cause another chain crash involve Hydra truck, Ford motor and one unregistered Mark flat-body truck. LASTMA officers rescue di baby without injury, while di four adults wey injure serious dey rushed go Lagos State Accident and Emergency Centre for Tollgate. Police officers from Alausa Division help secure di scene as LASTMA remove di damaged motors to free traffic.

LASTMA General Manager, Olalekan Bakare-Oki, sympathise with di victims and warn say dis dangerous habit of people wey dey run cross high-speed highway dey put lives for danger. E beg pedestrians make dem use di pedestrian bridges wey government provide. Di incident add join di steady road accidents wey LASTMA don dey record recently. On Monday, reports say one female passenger die and six others injure after another accident for Majidun area of Ikorodu on Sunday morning.