LASTMA condemns fatal crash caused by ‘one-way’ violation

• Oyo visitors agency decries reckless riding in Ibadan
The Lagos Divulge Traffic Management Authority (LASTMA) has expressed profound be apologetic about over a fatal vehicular shatter at Origan, Oko-Afo, alongside the Badagry Freeway hall at some stage in the weekend.

The tragic accident fascinating a industrial tricycle with registration quantity MUS 716 QM and a Mercedes-Benz 4MATIC Sports actions Utility Automobile (SUV) bearing the customised plate “OSUNFNKE.”

In step with preliminary investigations, the SUV driver used to be travelling against the budge of visitors (recurrently regularly known as riding ‘One-Components’) from Ile-Epo in direction of Oko-Afo. The reckless manoeuvre led to a head-on collision with the oncoming tricycle.

The affect used to be catastrophic, leaving the tricycle operator with more than one traumatic injuries, collectively with a indispensable knee dislocation. The victim used to be confirmed boring on the scene. Witnesses reported that the SUV driver fled at as soon as, abandoning his car and the victim.

LASTMA operatives with out warning secured the scene and escalated the subject to the Morogbo Division of the Nigeria Police Force, which took alter of the project. Officers from the Federal Avenue Security Corps (FRSC) conveyed the victim’s body to the mortuary on the General Health center in Badagry for added processing. LASTMA personnel moreover removed the broken automobiles from the roadway to ease visitors congestion, with both automobiles handed over to the police for forensic investigation and possible prosecution.

The General Manager of LASTMA, Mr Olalekan Bakare-Oki, condemned the incident, describing the driver’s actions as a flagrant violation of the Lagos Divulge Transport Sector Reform Law of 2018.

“This lamentable loss of lifestyles is an unhappy testomony to the lethal ramifications of impunity on our roads,” he said. In a connected model, the Oyo Divulge Avenue Transport Management Authority (OYRTMA) condemned the reckless riding of a tricycle rider who moreover violated visitors guidelines by riding against the budge of visitors in Ibadan.

The incident, which took place near a petroleum living on Thursday morning, resulted in severe injuries to a passer-by, Oladayo Adisa, who used to be crossing the dual carriageway when the shatter took place.

The Chairman of OYRTMA, Predominant Adekoya Adesagba (rtd.), described the incident as a traumatic reminder of the hazards posed by visitors violations.

“Mr Adisa used to be caught off guard and sustained severe injuries because of the the carelessness of the tricycle rider,” Adesagba said. “The federal government will no longer tolerate this reckless behaviour. We can proceed to implement visitors guidelines reasonably to be particular the security of all dual carriageway users.”