Truck falls from Lagos bridge, lands on two buses

A truck on Saturday fell from the Pen Cinema Bridge in the Agege area of Lagos State, and landed on two commercial buses.

Operatives of the Lagos State Traffic Management Authority rescued the severely-injured driver whose truck plunged from the bridge.

The General Manager of LASTMA, Olalekan Bakare-Oki, made this known in a statement signed by Taofiq Adebayo, Director, Public Affairs and Enlightenment Department, LASTMA.

According to Bakare-Oki, the accident occurred on Saturday on Old Abeokuta Road, Agege, and involved a fully-laden truck with registration number GGE 624 Y and two painted commercial Volkswagen buses.

He said that LASTMA officers responded swiftly and successfully extricated the severely-injured driver and immediately entrusted him to officers of the Elere Police Division.

He added that the driver was subsequently conveyed to the General Hospital, Ile-Epo for urgent medical intervention.

“Consequently, the truck plunged from the bridge, landing upon the two commercial buses stationed beneath.”

The LASTMA boss said that in a bid to safeguard other road users and forestall secondary incidents, the authority’s personnel swiftly secured the accident site by cordoning off the area and diverting vehicular traffic.

Bakare-Oki added, “Thereafter, operatives of the Lagos State Emergency Management Authority Response Unit expeditiously cleared the wreckage, thereby restoring unimpeded traffic flow along the area.”