Lagos: Many rescued as multiple vehicles crash on Otedola Bridge

The Lagos State Emergency Management Agency, LASEMA, has rescued each victims progressive successful a multiple-vehicle mishap astatine Otedola Bridge, inward Berger, with nary decease recorded.

The clang occurred connected Wednesday day and progressive 5 vehicles, including 2 trucks, a trailer, a achromatic Honda car and a Lexus.

According to LASEMA, its LRT Tiger Squad stationed astatine C3 was mobilised astatine 1:18 p.m. aft receiving a distress telephone and arrived astatine the country astir 10 minutes later.

The vehicles progressive were a motortruck conveying a generator, a containerised motortruck with registration fig ENU 135ZG, a loaded trailer with an chartless registration number, a achromatic Honda bearing registration fig LSR 870BF and a Lexus with registration fig KTU 682HX.

Preliminary investigations astatine the country indicated that the containerised motortruck suffered a mechanical nonaccomplishment portion successful motion, causing the operator to suffer power and clang into 3 different vehicles.

Another motortruck subsequently collided with the vehicles, worsening the mishap and resulting successful a multiple-vehicle pile-up.

LASEMA said it instantly activated its exigency effect protocol and assumed coordination of the cognition successful collaboration with the Lagos State Traffic Management Authority, LASTMA, and the Nigeria Police Force.

The responding agencies deployed postulation absorption and s...