Truck crushes bus, leaves female POS operator critically injured in Lagos

A pistillate Point of Sale, POS, relation suffered terrible injuries aft a afloat loaded 40-foot instrumentality motortruck mislaid power and overturned onto a commercialized autobus and adjacent shops astatine Second Rainbow inward Oshodi, Lagos.

The Lagos State Traffic Management Authority, LASTMA, said the mishap occurred on the work lane beside the Police Tactical Team Station.

According to the agency, the motortruck veered disconnected its way portion successful motion, overturned onto a commercialized shuttle autobus and rammed into roadside businesses, causing extended damage.

The injured POS operator, who was moving nether a canopy erstwhile the clang occurred, sustained superior injuries to some legs. She was rescued by officers of the Police Tactical Team and rushed to a adjacent infirmary for treatment.

LASTMA officials rapidly arrived astatine the country to negociate traffic, unafraid the country and coordinate rescue efforts with different exigency responders.

The motortruck operator was arrested and handed implicit to the constabulary for probe and imaginable prosecution.

A betterment motortruck was aboriginal deployed to region the overturned conveyance and the damaged bus, portion officers from the Orile-Iganmu Police Division commenced investigations into the incident.

Despite the severity of the clang and the demolition recorded, postulation travel successful the country was mostly maintained owed to the swift effect of LASTMA personnel.

“To expedite the rest...