Operatives of the Lagos State Traffic Management Authority recovered two dead bodies trapped under an empty long MAN diesel truck by Barracks Bus-stop along Lagos- Badagry Expressway, Lagos.
This was disclosed by the Director, Public Affairs and Enlightenment Department of LASTMA, Adebayo Taofiq, on Saturday.
He confirmed that the two corpses were passengers on a motorcycle riding on direction prohibited by law, ‘One-way’ on the Lagos-Badagry Expressway.
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Taofiq said the two motorcycle passengers died instantly while the rider later died at a hospital around Satellite Town.
Preliminary investigations, according to him, indicated that a truck driver while on a top speed lost control as a result of a rear busted tyre and rammed into a motorcycle plying one-way by Barracks Bus-stop inward Iyana-Iba along Lagos-Badagry Expressway.
While the truck driver ran away after the accident, policemen from ‘Onireke’ Police Division’ took away the recovered two dead bodies.
He said Ogunremi Olanrewaju (LASTMA) Commander Area D) who led the recovery operations and his team immediately evacuated the truck and motorcycle off the road for an unhindered free vehicular movement around the Expressway.
The General Manager of LASTMA, Bakare-Oki Olalekan while warning truck drivers to always stop speeding however appealed to motorcycle operators to stop plying one-way, including all restricted routes across the state.
