Lagosians at the popular Rainbow bus stop on the Oshodi-Apapa expressway today witnessed a forty feet container fall off a truck and landed on a motorcycle, popularly called ‘Okada’.
According to popular blogger, Linda Ikeji, the truck was trying to over take another truck, when it tripped on the pedestrian path and fell, injuring the Okada rider.
The scene of the incident was filled with many on-lookers who trooped out to catch a glimpse of what had happened.
The incident is coming two months after the Lagos state government reiterated its determination to ensure strict enforcement of the Lagos state Road Traffic Law 2012, which restricts trailers and other long vehicles from plying the metropolis between the hours of 6am to 9pm.
The state government had vowed to go tough on any trailer and long vehicle that contravenes the law as such vehicle will be impounded and made to pay the stipulated fine accordingly.
Recall that on Wednesday, September 2, a heavy duty container skidded off the Ojuelegba bridge in Lagos and landed on two private cars, crushing the occupants of the vehicles.
Two days after the incident, another articulated truck skidded off along Ikorodu-Shagamu expressway causing serious vehicular obstruction in the axis.
On Friday, October 30, a similar accident occurred around the busy Bonny Camp bus stop in Victoria Island, Lagos.
See photos from the accident scene below:
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