About Forty-eight hours after a 40-foot container truck fell off the Ojuelegba Bridge along Funsho Williams Avenue in Lagos, killing three persons, another truck with a Lagos licence number plate , JJJ-933 XA, has fell today on the Ikorodu-Sagamu Expressway, at Winners Bus Stop, located between Lagos State Polytechnic and Jubilee Estate in Ikorodu.
Reports say that there was no life lost in today’s accident which occurred when the truck was said to be ascending a hill en-route Lagos road, Ikorodu and the driver lost control and fell on its side.
It fell across the entire breadth of the dual carriage way and prevented both motorists and other vehicles from using the major road.
An eyewitness, simply identified as Kabiru, who lives few meters away from the scene, said “the accident happened at about 2.30 a.m.
“We heard a loud noise and when we came to the scene, we saw that it was a container truck that had fallen.
“We didn’t see the driver of the truck by the time we arrived.”
A resident of the area, Mrs. Chioma Amadi said that such accidents are regular in that area, saying that a similar fatal accident happened there about four years ago which claimed the life of a polytechnic lecturer’s pregnant wife.
“Incidents of fallen containerised -trucks and petrol tankers are a regular occurrence here, especially because of the many companies and industries that are sited between Lagos and Sagamu in Ogun.
“The trucks are either owned by some of the companies or their contractors.
“Imagine if such a loaded truck falls on someone’s car, it will take the grace of God for the occupants to survive it and be alive.
“On Wednesday, it was at Ojuelegba, today it is here in Ikorodu. Imagine the thousands of people who ply this road daily and each time an accident occurs, the entire road becomes impassable.
“Think of the ripple economic effect of the delays this will cause, people are stranded, businesses suffer and money is lost.
“The Lagos State Government should find a lasting solution as well as penalise owners of such trucks.”
An official of the Lagos State Traffic Management Agency,(LASTMA) who did not want to be named, said the authorities are doing do everything to ensure that impatient and indiscipline motorists don’t cause further chaos. [myad]
