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3 Dies As Truck Collides With Motorcycle Driving One-Way Along Lagos-Badagry Expressway
Two (2) motorcycle passengers died instantly, the rider later died at a hospital around Satellites Town.
Ikeja, Lagos State – Operatives of the Lagos State Traffic Management Authority (LASTMA) recovered the dead bodies of two people trapped under an empty long ‘Man-Diesel’ truck near Barracks Bus-stop along the Lagos-Badagry Expressway.
Adebayo Taofiq, the Director of the Public Affairs and Enlightenment Department of LASTMA, said the 2 (two) recovered dead bodies were passengers on a motorcycle riding on direction prohibited by law ‘One-way’ on the Lagos-Badagry Expressway.
He said two (2) motorcycle passengers died instantly, the rider later died at a hospital around Satellites Town.
“Preliminary investigations revealed that a truck driver while on a top speed lost control as a result of a rear busted tyre and rammed into a motorcycle plying one-way by Barracks Bus-stop inward Iyana-Iba along Lagos-Badagry Expressway.
“While the truck driver ran away after the accident, Policemen from ‘Onireke’ Police Division’ took away the recovered two (2) dead bodies.
He explained that Ogunremi Olanrewaju (Lastma Commander Area D) led the recovery operations and his team to immediately evacuate the truck and motorcycle off the road for an unhindered free vehicular movement around the Expressway.