No fewer than 16 persons died on Thursday in separate auto accidents in Lagos and Ondo states. In Lagos, at the Abule Tailor bus stop
end of the Lagos-Abeokuta Expressway, a widow and trader, Alhaja Fatima
Adebambo, died in a fatal accident involving a cement-laden truck with
number plate, XA 298 WNN, and two other vehicles.
PUNCH Metro learnt that the
accident occurred after a Nissan Serena bus, marked KTU 166 CX, and
another car, marked LND 257 BP, rammed into the stationary Dangote truck
on the middle of the busy expressway.
Adebambo, who drove the Serena bus, died
on the spot, while the driver of the car, who was identified simply as
Olaoluwa, sustained serious injuries.
It was gathered that Olaoluwa was
initially rushed to a medical facility for first aid, but the doctor in
charge advised that he should be taken to the nearest general hospital
for comprehensive treatment.
One of them, Matthew Olayinka, said the
crash could have been avoided if the police and the Federal Road Safety
Corps had responded to several calls to tow the truck away from the
road.
He said, “The police and the FRSC personnel patrol the road nearly every 15 minutes; they cannot claim that they were not aware that a truck broke down the middle of the road. We even called 112 and 767, the telephone numbers dedicated for emergency. We are surprised now that they only came when the stationary vehicle has caused accident.”
Another eyewitness, who gave his name as
Saheed Sanni, said sympathisers and the police spent a lot of time to
retrieve the mangled body of Adebambo from the wreckage of her vehicle.
Sanni said, “We had to search her bag before we found a telephone number which we dialed to inform the receiver, who happened to be her relative, that she was involved in a crash. We knew through our conversation with the receiver that she was a widow with children.”
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