Based on initial inquiries, a renowned commercial Volkswagen bus driver ran a red light, collided with a moving commercial motorcycle that was transporting a passenger, and then resumed driving at top speed.
Taofiq reported that the Lagos State Ambulance Service personnel retrieved the deceased passenger’s body and the rescued rider, and that the commercial bus driver was given over to Akinpelu Police Division officials.
When Bakare Oki, the interim general manager of LASTMA, visited the scene of the accident, he issued a warning to commercial bus drivers to never speed and to always follow the state’s traffic laws.
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According to the Lagos State Traffic Management Authority, a passenger died and a serious injury was sustained when a commercial motorcycle and a Volkswagen bus with the license plate EKY 558 YG collided at the Bolade Intersection on the Lagos-Abeokuta Expressway inward from Oshodi.
This was revealed in a statement provided to PUNCH Metro on Sunday by Adebayo Taofiq, the Public Relations Officer for LASTMA.
Taofiq reported that the stranded motorbike rider was freed by LASTMA officials under the commercial bus, but the passenger perished instantaneously.
Part of the statement says, “Operations of the Lagos State Traffic Management Authority today disclosed that at the Bolade Intersection inward Oshodi along Lagos-Abeokuta Expressway, Lagos, a reckless commercial Volkswagen bus driver (EKY 558 YG) rammed into a moving commercial motorcycle, resulting in a passenger death and a rider seriously injured.”
The passenger perished instantly, according to Mr. Adebayo Taofiq, Director of LASTMA’s Public Affairs and Education Department, while LASTMA officers were able to rescue the stranded motorcycle rider under the commercial bus.