A yet-to-be-identified male adult lost his life after a commercial bus rammed into a street light pole at Idimu in the Alimosho Local Government Area of Lagos State. PUNCH Metro learnt that two other occupants in the bus sustained varying degrees of injury in the incident.
A yet-to-be-identified male adult lost his life after a commercial bus rammed into a street light pole at Idimu in the Alimosho Local Government Area of Lagos State.learnt that two other occupants in the bus sustained varying degrees of injury in the incident.An eyewitness who identified himself as Wasiu told our correspondent that the bus was at top speed, some meters away from Idimu bus-stop, when it lost control ramming into the pole on the median.
Another eyewitness, Demola Raji, said two other occupants, including the driver, were immediately taken to the hospital. The spokesperson for the Lagos State Traffic Management Authority, Adebayo Taofiq, and the spokesperson for the Ogun State Traffic Compliance and Enforcement Agency, Babatunde Akinbiyi, disclosed this in separate statements on Sunday.
Taofiq noted that the truck, while driving on the carriageway of the expressway, hit the pedestrian, who was violating the use of the pedestrian bridge.
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