Five seriously injured as 40-foot truck rams into two buses in Lagos

Five passengers were earnestly injured aft a 40-foot HOWO motortruck rammed into 2 commercialized buses astatine Berger Bus Stop, inward Kara Bridge, astir the Ojodu axis of Lagos State.

The Lagos State Traffic Management Authority (LASTMA) said successful a connection that the clang progressive an interstate commercialized Mazda autobus and a Toyota Hiace bus. The 5 injured persons comprised 3 females and 2 males, including the driver.

“Reports bespeak that the heavy-duty truck, travelling retired of Lagos, rammed into the 2 commercialized rider vehicles, resulting successful superior injuries to respective occupants,” the connection said.

LASTMA operatives rescued the victims with enactment from information unit attached to Isheri Police Station. Volunteer motorists, accompanied by LASTMA officials, transported the injured passengers to the Lagos State Emergency and Trauma Centre astatine Toll Gate for aesculapian appraisal and treatment.

According to the agency, the clang caused dense postulation congestion, with queues stretching backmost to Otedola Bridge. LASTMA officials cleared the motortruck and some buses from the roadworthy to forestall further accidents and easiness postulation flow.

The vehicles were subsequently handed implicit to the constabulary for probe into the origin of the clang and immoderate indispensable ineligible action.

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