Posted by Amarachi on Mon 01st May, 2023 - tori.ng
LASTMA officials rescued the driver on top of the bridge and handed him over to policemen attached to the Ejigbo Police Station.
A driver was left unconscious after his truck fell on a Toyota Camry car around the Cele-Egbe Bridge, inward Ikotun, Lagos State, on Sunday, April 30.
Confirming the incident in a statement released, the Director of Public Affairs and Enlightenment Department of the Lagos State Traffic Management Authority, Taofiq Adebayo, said the agency’s officials rescued the driver on top of the bridge and handed him over to policemen attached to the Ejigbo Police Station.
According to Adebayo, the truck driver was conveying biscuits to a destination in the state when the incident happened.
“Operatives of the Lagos State Traffic Management Authority today (Sunday) rescued an unconscious accident victim on top of the Cele-Egbe Bridge, inward Ikotun, Lagos State. LASTMA Anjorin Adeola, Zebra 7 Ejigbo, who led the rescue team, confirmed that the rescued unconscious accident victim was the truck driver involved in an accident where a white six-tyre truck with number plate FFF 996 XB, loaded with biscuits fell on an unregistered blue Toyota Camry car inward Ikotun, Lagos.
LASTMA Anjorin stated that the LASTMA officials handed over the rescued unconscious driver to policemen from the Ejigbo Divisional Police Headquarters'', the statement read.