LASTMA arrests fleeing foreign driver for knocking down pedestrian

By Evelyn Usman &Efe Onodjae

Lagos State Traffic Management Authority,LASTMA, operatives, yesterday, foiled the flight effort of a Togolese operator who knocked down a pedestrian astatine the Adeniji Adele intersection, inward Ilubirin, Lagos Island.

The operator of a Mazda car with registration fig EPE 749 GS, was said to person mislaid power of the conveyance and rammed into a pedestrian, who was attempting to transverse the engaged intersection.

Eyewitnesses said the unfortunate was near successful a excavation of his humor connected the crushed portion the operator attempted to fly the scene.

But LASTMA officials connected patrol reportedly chased him down.

Director, Public Affairs and Enlightenment Department of LASTMA, Mr. Adebayo Taofiq, said the fleeing motorist was apprehended and handed implicit to policemen attached to the Adeniji Adele Police Division for broad interrogation and consequent prosecution.

He explained that exigency aesculapian responders from the Lagos State Ambulance Service, LASAMBUS, swiftly activated by LASTMA personnel, conveyed the severely injured pedestrian to the General Hospital, Odan, Lagos Island, wherever urgent and life-saving attraction was instantly administered.

The General Manager of LASTMA, Mr. Olalekan Bakare-Oki, admonished motorists to clasp a strict consciousness of information consciousness whenever down the wheel, emphasizing that excessive velocity remains a superior origin of needless tragedies connected Lagos roads.

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