*As Adebayo Taofiq gives account
By KEMI KASUMU
It was a gory sight to watch as human lives were seen wasted away in a metropolitan accident involving a truck and one commercial motorcycle, popularly called okada, in Lagos on Saturday January 13, 2024.
Three people including the two okada passengers were crushed to death by the truck, during the accident that happened at Barracks bus stop inward Iyana Iba bus stop on Lagos-Badagry Expressway.
The two okada passengers died instantly while the okada rider himself died at the hospital where he was rushed to, according to a media source.
The okada was riding against traffic when it was rammed over by the truck driver, who had lost control of his vehicle due to a bust rear tyre.
Operatives of the Lagos State Traffic Management Authority (LASTMA) recovered the two corpses under the truck.
The Director, Public Affairs and Enlightenment Department of LASTMA, Mr. Adebayo Taofiq, confirmed that the 2 (two) recovered dead bodies were passengers on a motorcycle riding on direction prohibited by law ‘One-way’ on the Lagos-Badagry Expressway.
While the truck driver ran away after the accident, policemen from ‘Onireke Police Division’ took away the recovered two dead bodies.
Mr. Ogunremi Olanrewaju, LASTMA Commander Area D, who led the recovery operations and his team, immediately evacuated the truck and motorcycle off the road for an unhindered free vehicular movement around the Expressway.
The General Manager of LASTMA, Mr. Bakare-Oki Olalekan, while warning truck drivers to always stop over speeding, however, appealed to motorcycle operators to stop plying one-way including all restricted routes across the State.
