Four-vehicle crash causes heavy traffic on Lagos Apapa-Oshodi Expressway

A four-vehicle collision has caused important postulation disruption on the Apapa-Oshodi Expressway successful Lagos State.

The Lagos State Traffic Management Authority, LASTMA, said the mishap occurred connected Tuesday astatine Cele Express, inward to Mile 2.

The bureau identified the vehicles progressive arsenic a Hilux van, a container-laden heavy-duty truck, a patrol van and a Toyota car.

It attributed the clang to a suspected mechanical failure, peculiarly a imaginable brake malfunction, adding that an unconfirmed fig of victims had been taken to hospital.

In a connection posted connected X, LASTMA said, “A aggregate mishap occasioned by mechanical fault/brake nonaccomplishment involving a Hilux van, a containerised heavy-duty truck, a Patrol van, and a Toyota car occurred astatine Cele Express inward Mile 2 on the Apapa Oshodi Express Way, resulting successful an unconfirmed fig of casualties who person been rushed to the hospital.”

LASTMA said its unit had been deployed to strategical locations on the expressway to usher motorists and redirect postulation done alternate routes successful a bid to forestall further incidents.

The bureau besides advised drivers to workout caution portion utilizing the road.

The mishap occurred days aft a abstracted clang involving a motortruck and a commercialized autobus connected Alaro City Bridge, inward T-Junction, Epe, claimed 4 lives and near 13 different radical critically injured.

LASTMA spokesperson, Adebayo Taofiq, disclosed successful a connection issued connected October 28 that the motortruck operator besides suffered terrible injuries, with some legs trapped successful the wreckage and subsequently lost.

According to the agency, preliminary accounts suggested that the motortruck crashed into the afloat occupied commercialized autobus arsenic some vehicles were crossing the single-lane bridge, leaving respective passengers trapped successful the wreckage.

The Lagos State Ambulance Service, LASAMBUS, transported the 13 injured passengers to a adjacent aesculapian installation for exigency treatment.

LASTMA officials, moving alongside the Federal Road Safety Corps, FRSC, evacuated the bodies of the deceased to a mortuary, portion officers from the Epe Police Division provided information during the rescue and exigency operations.

The agency’s General Manager, Olalekan Bakare-Oki, commiserated with the families of those who died and wished the injured victims a speedy recovery.

He called connected motorists to thrust carefully, obey postulation regulations and workout other caution erstwhile approaching bridges, constrictive roads and different locations wherever constricted roadworthy abstraction could heighten the hazard of accidents.

Four-vehicle clang causes dense postulation connected Lagos Apapa-Oshodi Expressway