US EditionEight Die, Many Injured in Lagos-Badagry Highway Crash
- Early Sunday, a collision between a 16-seater Mazda bus and a DAF truck on the Lagos-Badagry Expressway near the Atura Bus Stop resulted in the deaths of eight individuals, including the bus driver and conductor.
- Early findings indicate that the bus driver was speeding excessively and subsequently lost command of the vehicle, leading to a devastating crash compounded by reckless behavior along a high-speed route.
- Emergency responders from LASTMA, the FRSC, police, and Nigerian Army collaborated in a rescue effort, saving eight injured passengers who were promptly transported to Badagry General Hospital to receive medical care.
- Olalekan Bakare-Oki, LASTMA General Manager, strongly condemned reckless driving and excessive speeding, highlighting the grave danger they pose on Nigerian roads, and called for unwavering compliance with established safety measures.
- The state government began deploying speed-limiting devices at accident-prone areas to reduce fatalities and align with Governor Sanwo-Olu's THEMES Plus Agenda prioritizing road safety and emergency response.
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Eight die, many injured in Lagos-Badagry highway crash
A tragic road accident in the early hours of Sunday has killed eight people after a commercial 16-seater Mazda bus collided head-on with a DAF truck at the Atura Bus Stop, along the Lagos-Badagry Expressway. The fatal crash, confirmed by the General Manager of the Lagos State Traffic Management Authority, LASTMA, Olalekan Bakare-Oki, involved a Mazda bus with registration number KJA 811 YF and a DAF truck bearing the plate number T1 4636 LA. Acc…
8 Killed, many injured in Lagos-Badagry expressway auto crash – Daily Trust
A tragic road accident on the Mile 2-Badagry Expressway, Lagos, has claimed the lives of eight persons and left many others injured. The accident, which occurred at Atura Bus Stop, inward Badagry, in the early hours of Sunday, involved a 16-passenger seater Mazda commercial bus, registration number KJA 811 YF, and a DAF truck, marked T1 4636 LA. About eight other passengers onboard the ill-fated bus sustained varying degrees of trauma. Accordin…
39 killed in Lagos, Ogun, Kano auto crashes (see pix)
The Lagos State Traffic Management Authority (LASTMA) says a pre-dawn collision involving a 16-seater commercial Mazda bus and a DAF truck has claimed the lives of eight passengers. The General Manager of LASTMA, Mr. Olalekan Bakare-Oki, made this known in a statement on Sunday in Lagos. Bakare-Oki said that the collision occurred at Atura Bus […] The post 39 killed in Lagos, Ogun, Kano auto crashes (see pix) appeared first on Freedom Online.
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