The Director, Public Affairs and Enlightenment Department of LASTMA Mr. Adebayo Taofiq has confirmed that a passenger died while a bike rider was seriously injured when a reckless commercial Volkswagen bus (EKY 558 YG) driver rammed into a moving commercial motorcycle at Bolade Intersection inward Oshodi along Lagos-Abeokuta Expresswaya, Lagos.
Reacting the sad incident, Durojaiye Musefiu ‘Bravo’, a Lastma official attached to Zone 20 P. W. D, who was on a traffic monitoring patrol with his team around Oshodi axis at that time, confirmed that the accident could have been averted if the notorious commercial Volkswagen bus driver had obeyed the traffic light regulating vehicular movements at Bolade Intersection.
He confirmed further that while the passenger (male) on the commercial motorcycle died instantly, the trapped rider was rescued under the commercial bus with serious injuries by Lastma officials.
Durojaiye surmised that while the corpse of the dead passenger and the rescued rider were moved away by LASAMBUS personnel, the driver of the commercial bus was handed over to Police men from Akinpelu police Division by Lastma officials.
The General Manager of LASTMA Mr. Bakare-Oki Olalekan who visited the accident scene, appealed to motorcycle operators to stop plying bridges/ highways including all restricted routes across the State while warning commercial bus drivers to stop over speeding and to always obey traffic laws as installed across the State by the Government.
