Container crushes police officer, one other in Lagos

The Lagos State Traffic Management Authority (LASTMA) says a afloat laden 40-foot instrumentality motortruck with registration fig XP 368 AKD connected Tuesday overturned connected a tricycle, sidesplitting a constabulary serviceman and different passenger.

The General Manager of LASTMA, Mr. Olalekan Bakare-Oki, stated this successful a property merchandise connected Tuesday successful Lagos.

Bakare-Oki noted that the mishap occurred earlier connected Tuesday on Ijora Causeway, inward Ijora Seven-Up.

“Preliminary findings bespeak that the articulated vehicle, portion attempting a precarious maneuver beneath the Ijora Bridge, mislaid power and consequently capsized, fatally crushing a tricycle with registration fig KJA 364 QN.

“Regrettably, 2 passengers, a serving constabulary serviceman included, were killed instantly.

“The remains of the deceased constabulary serviceman was subsequently conveyed to a morgue astatine Yaba by information operatives, portion relatives of the 2nd victim, a pistillate passenger, hastened to the country to retrieve the remains of their loved one,” helium said.

He said successful a valiant rescue cognition spearheaded by LASTMA operatives successful performance with allied exigency responders, 2 further victims, including the tricycle operator, were extricated alive, though they sustained terrible bilateral limb fractures.

He added that the injured were expeditiously transported by the Lagos State Ambulance Service (LASAMBUS) to Jimsan Hospital, Gasikiya, Ijora, for urgent aesculapian intervention.

“To avert a descent into chaos, combined detachments of information unit drawn from Badia, Trinity, and Kirikiri Police Divisions established robust information cordons.

“Their decisive beingness pacified irate onlookers, who had attempted to acceptable the containerised motortruck ablaze, and safeguarded the exigency responders passim the duration of the rescue operations,” helium said.

The LASTMA brag expressed profound condolences to the bereaved families of the precocious constabulary serviceman and the deceased pistillate passenger, describing the calamity arsenic profoundly grievous and astir regrettable.

He further offered prayers for the swift recuperation of the 2 surviving victims who remained nether intensive aesculapian care.

Bakare-Oki lauded the combined efforts of exigency and information agencies for their punctual intervention, commendable professionalism, and proactive measures, which forestalled further fatalities and prevented escalation of the situation.

“The authorization reiterated its earnest admonition to motortruck operators and articulated conveyance drivers to workout the highest grade of caution, peculiarly erstwhile negotiating bridges, intersections, and densely trafficked corridors.

“This is to avert the recurrence of specified calamitous incidents,” helium said.

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