Lagos: One dead, four injured in Third Mainland Bridge crash

A fatal roadworthy mishap connected the Third Mainland Bridge successful Lagos has claimed the beingness of a woman, portion 4 different passengers sustained superior injuries aft 2 Toyota Sienna vehicles collided.

The clang occurred successful the aboriginal hours of Tuesday adjacent the Iyana-Iworo axis, involving 2 afloat loaded commercialized vehicles.

The Head of Public Affairs astatine the Lagos State Emergency Management Agency, LASEMA, Olawale Afolabi, confirmed the incident, stating that the injured victims were promptly evacuated to a adjacent trauma centre for urgent aesculapian treatment.

According to him, preliminary findings bespeak that reckless driving by 1 of the vehicles triggered the accident, resulting successful a head-on collision.

Afolabi explained that LASEMA’s Tiger Squad from the C3 Command was activated astatine astir 7:26 a.m. and arrived astatine the country astir 8:00 a.m. to oversee rescue and betterment operations.

He added that exigency responders, moving alongside constabulary officers and officials of the Lagos State Traffic Management Authority, LASTMA, secured the area, managed postulation flow, and cleared the wreckage.

Quoting the Permanent Secretary of LASEMA, Olufemi Oke-Osanyintolu, Afolabi described the incidental arsenic avoidable and urged motorists to strictly comply with postulation regulations.

He stressed the value of exercising...