LAWMA official dies as bus rams into truck in Lagos

The Lagos State Emergency Management Agency (LASEMA) says one person was killed and another injured in a road accident involving a commercial bus and a truck.

A statement on Tuesday by Olufemi Oke-Osanyintolu, LASEMA permanent secretary, said the incident occurred at about 11:59pm on Monday at Ketu bus stop.

Oke-Osanyintolu noted that a yellow commercial minibus rammed into a parked truck, killing a Lagos Waste Management Authority (LAWMA) official and leaving the bus driver severely injured.

“Following distress alerts at 23:59hrs, the Lagos State Emergency Management Agency, LASEMA, activated the State’s Emergency Response Plans from the Command and Control Centre, Alausa,” the statement reads.

“Upon arrival of LASEMA’s tiger response team at the incident scene by 00:07hrs, it was discovered that a registered commercial (yellow) minibus popularly known as (korope), with registration number AGL 97 YK, collided with a parked LAWMA truck, registration number unknown.”

He said preliminary investigation revealed that the accident happened due to reckless driving from the minibus driver and “carelessness on the part of the LAWMA truck which did not indicate its parked status with a C-Caution sign”.

The LASEMA secretary added that the affected vehicles have been towed off the road for free flow of traffic.

“Further investigations revealed that in the process of the accident, the minibus hit a LAWMA official performing his lawful duties. Unfortunately, the LAWMA official died before arrival of the agency’s response teams,” Oke-Osanyintolu said.

“However, driver of the accident minibus sustained significant injuries and was given immediate medical attention by paramedics from the agency’s pre-hospital care unit at the incident scene.”