By Ikugbadi Oluwasegun
Two separate road crashes along Lekki-Epe Expressway claimed five lives and left five others severely injured and this tragedy happened due to excessive speeding and gross negligence of traffic regulations.
One of the accidents happened during the early hours of the day at Abijo Bus Stop, precisely under the pedestrian bridge inward Epe corridor, where a Mitsubishi pick-up van bearing registration number AKD 733 JM, travelling at high speed, lost control and crashed into a stationary Craneburg Construction Company equipment, lawfully parked.
The impact resulted in the instantaneous death of four occupants (three males and one female) whose bodies were recovered lifeless at the scene of the accident.
In another incident, a Toyota Escort Jeep, also, at an ungovernable speed, crashed violently into a parked Dangote truck in the Frajend Group axis inward Bogije, along the same Lekki-Epe Expressway.
The devastating collision resulted in immediate death of the SUV driver, while two other passengers, grievously injured and entrapped within the crushed vehicle, were meticulously extricated by LASTMA personnel after a laborious and delicate rescue operation.
Upon successful recovery, both survivors were immediately placed in the custody of officers from the Elemoro Police Division, who ensured their prompt conveyance to medical facilities for life-saving intervention.
Mr. Olalekan Bakare-Oki, General Manager of LASTMA expressed profound grief and extended deepest condolences to the families and loved ones of the deceased, describing the accidents as a colossal and avoidable tragedy.
Akpabio, who urged fellow lawmakers to ensure that multilateralism was not reduced to rhetoric, said, Multilateralism must rise as a movement of resolve.
