​LASTMA impounds 84 vehicles over traffic violations in Lagos

The Lagos State Traffic Management Authority, LASTMA, has impounded 84 commercialized and backstage vehicles for assorted postulation violations during a large enforcement cognition carried retired astatine cardinal traffic-prone locations crossed the state.

The weekend operation covered Idumota, Iddo, Ijora-Olopa, Costain and Onipanu, with the bureau targeting areas wherever repeated violations by motorists and commercialized autobus operators person continued to disrupt the creaseless question of traffic.

LASTMA General Manager, Olalekan Bakare-Oki, said the bureau was peculiarly acrophobic astir commercialized buses driving against postulation and reversing unlawfully on the one-way conception betwixt Iddo and Idumota done Cater Bridge.

He warned that the signifier posed important information to motorists, commuters and pedestrians utilizing the route.

“Motorists and different morganatic roadworthy users approaching the span whitethorn person small oregon nary forewarning that a commercialized conveyance is unlawfully reversing against the prescribed absorption of traffic, thereby creating an highly hazardous concern with the imaginable to precipitate devastating collisions, injuries and fatalities,” helium said.

The enforcement cognition was met with absorption successful immoderate locations, with immoderate LASTMA officers reportedly assaulted and injured portion carrying retired their duties.