One-way driver flees after killing tricyclist in Lagos crash

A industrial tricycle rider become once killed in a collision with a Sports Utility Automobile reportedly riding in opposition to site traffic at Origan, Oko-Afo, alongside the Badagry Parkway in Lagos Command.

The Lagos Command Online page traffic Management Authority confirmed the accident occurred over the weekend.

LASTMA spokesperson Adebayo Taofiq talked about that the SUV driver, working a Mercedes-Benz 4MATIC with the personalised plate “OSUNFNKE,” become once making an strive to circumvent congestion by riding in the reverse course of site traffic when he struck the oncoming tricycle, which bore the registration number MUS 716 QM.

The impression resulted in lethal accidents to the tricycle rider, at the side of a essential knee dislocation. The victim become once pronounced tiresome at the scene.

“The tricycle operator sustained more than one anxious accidents, at the side of a essential knee dislocation, and become once confirmed tiresome at the scene,” Taofiq talked about.

The SUV driver fled straight after the fracture, abandoning his car and the deceased tricycle rider.

LASTMA personnel arrived promptly, securing the scene and escalating the case to officers from the Morogbo Division of the Nigeria Police Power. Officials from the Federal Street Safety Corps assisted in transporting the victim’s stays to the mortuary at the Similar outdated Neatly being heart in Badagry.

LASTMA operatives eliminated the damaged vehicles from the freeway to revive traditional site traffic drift and handed them over to the police for further investigation.

Reacting to the incident, LASTMA Similar outdated Manager Olalekan Bakare-Oki described the motive force’s actions as a extreme violation of public safety and freeway rules.

“This lamentable loss of lifestyles is an sad testament to the lethal ramifications of impunity on our roads,” Bakare-Oki talked about.

The case stays below police investigation, with authorities expected to hint the fleeing SUV driver for doable prosecution.