Adewale Ajayi,
Two passengers and commercial motorcycle rider (Okada rider) were on Saturday crushed to death by a truck at Barracks bus stop inward Iyana Iba bus stop on Lagos-Badagry Expressway
The two passengers died instantly while the okada rider himself died at the hospital where he was rushed to death.
According to reports, the Okada rider was riding against traffic when it rammed into the truck whose driver had lost control of the vehicle due to a bust rear tyre.
Operatives of the Lagos State Traffic Management Authority (LASTMA) recovered the two corpses under the truck.
The Director, Public Affairs and Enlightenment Department of LASTMA Mr. Adebayo Taofiq confirmed that the 2 (two) recovered dead bodies were passengers on a motorcycle riding in a direction prohibited by law ‘One-way’ on the Lagos-Badagry Expressway.
The truck driver however, fled the scene of the accident, policemen from ‘Onireke’ Police Division’ took away the corpse of the passenger.
According to Area D commander of LASTMA Ogunremi Olanrewaju, who led the recovery operations he said the truck and motorcycle have been taken off the road so as not to hinder free vehicular movement around the Expressway.
The General Manager of LASTMA, Mr. Bakare-Oki Olalekan while did warn truck drivers to desist from over speeding, just as he appealed to motorcycle operators to stop playing one-way and refrain from playing all restricted routes across the State.
