Police Officer, Passenger Die As 40ft Container Crushes Tricycle In Lagos

A-yet-to-be identified Police Officer and 1 different rider were confirmed dormant connected Monday aft a container-laden articulated motortruck fell connected a afloat loaded commercialized tricycle.

According to a connection by the Director, Public Affairs and Enlightenment Department of LASTMA, Adebayo Taofiq, helium said the mishap happened astatine Ijora, Causeway inward Ijora 7Up, Lagos.

He said preliminary findings indicated that the articulated conveyance was attempting a precarious manoeuvre beneath the Ijora Bridge.

Taofiq said the motortruck mislaid power and consequently crushed a tricycle successful its path.

“LASTMA hereby confirms the occurrence of a astir lamentable mishap earlier contiguous on Ijora Causeway, inward Ijora 7Up, involving a Apple afloat laden 40-foot instrumentality motortruck XP 368 AKD which overturned upon a commercialized tricycle KJA 364 QN conveying unsuspecting passengers.

“Preliminary findings bespeak that the articulated vehicle, portion attempting a precarious manoeuvre beneath the Ijora Bridge, mislaid power and consequently capsized, fatally crushing a tricycle successful its path. Regrettably, 2 passengers, including a serving Police Officer, were killed instantly.

“The remains of the deceased Police Officer were subsequently conveyed to a morgue astatine Yaba by information operatives, portion grief-stricken relatives of the 2nd victim, a pistillate passenger, hastened to the country to retrieve the remains of their loved one.”

In 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.

The injured were expeditiously transported by the Lagos State Ambulance Service (LASAMBUS) to Jimsan Hospital, Gaskiya, Ijora, for urgent aesculapian intervention.

He said but for the speedy involution of information officials, irate mob has threatened to pain down the articulated truck

“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.”

The General Manager of LASTMA, Olalekan Bakare-Oki, has expressed profound condolences to the bereaved families of the precocious Police Officer 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 stay nether intensive aesculapian care.

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

The Authority 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, to avert the recurrence of specified calamitous incidents.