One person died on Tuesday in a multiple-vehicle road accident around the Shitta area of Lagos State.
The Lagos State Emergency Management Agency (LASEMA) said it received a distress call through the Toll-Free Emergency Numbers 767/112, at 2215 hrs on Tuesday night.
The agency said it activated the State’s Emergency Response plans, with Emergency Response Teams responding from Onipan, followed by the necessary equipment from Cappa Base, the hub of LASEMA
heavy-duty equipment in a 5-minute record time, at 2220 hrs.
In a statement, the Permanent Secretary, LASEMA, Dr. Olufemi Damilola Oke-Osanyintolu, said: “Upon arrival of the LASEMA Response Team at the incident scene, it was observed that a LAWMA PSP compactor truck was involved in a multiple accident when it reportedly suffered mechanical error (disengaged propeller), lost control and crashed into a Kia Rio Saloon car, registration number unknown, on Shitta Bridge.
Further information gathered at the incident scene was that the compactor thereafter crashed down the side of the bridge onto a seven-passenger mini-bus (korope) and a tricycle (Keke Marwa), killing the tricyclist instantly on impact.
However, the corpse of the tricyclist (an adult male), was recovered from the incident scene at the aforementioned address, and transported to the Infectious Disease Hospital, IDH, Yaba, for further processing.
All three vehicles involved in the multiple accidents have been recovered, and taken to Iponri Police Station, while the LAWMA PSP Compactor truck was recovered to the LAWMA yard at Ijora with the aid of the Agency’s Heavy Duty Equipment (Elephant) at 02:29hrs.
In attendance at the incident scene were the LASEMA Response Team, LASAMBUS, LASTMA, Divisional Police Officer, DPO, of Surulere Divisional Office, and officers of the NPF from Iponri Police Station.
