Lagos Staff Bus-Train Collision: NRC Gives Details On Tragic Incident

• NRC has provided more detail on the BRT bus-train collision in Lagos.

• The tragic incident happened in the early hours of Thursday.

• Two bodies have so far been recovered from the scene, while several others are injured.

EKO HOT BLOG reports that Mr Fidet Okhiria, the Managing Director of Nigerian Railway Corporation, NRC, on Thursday gave an account of the brief he got on the accident involving a train and a bus earlier in the day.

This online news platform had earlier reported that an NRC train was involved in an accident with a Lagos State Government staff bus on the rail track in Sogunle area of Lagos.

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Two bodies have so far been recovered from the scene, while several others are injured, according to the National Emergency Management Agency.

Okhiria told NAN in Lagos that, “information I gathered at the scene of the incident, they said many cars stopped when they got to the level crossing while the Lagos State Staff Bus driver continued moving, which I don’t know why.

”Maybe the driver thought he could pass before the train got nearer to him. He could not pass, then the train crushed the bus; that is what we gathered.

“The train was coming from Ijoko to Iddo.”
He urged Lagos drivers to be more careful when passing through the level crossing, to avoid train accidents.

The managing director, who was concerned about the lives of the Lagos State staff, appealed to motorists to consider the level crossing at all times.

Okhiria said that when motorists get to the level crossing, they should not ignore the point where they should stop.

The Director, Public Affairs and Enlightenment Department, Lagos State Traffic Management Authority, LASTMA, Mr Taofiq Adebayo, had said in a statement that a Lagos State Government staff bus was crushed by a moving train at PWD, Ikeja.
Adebayo said that the staff bus was with registration no 04A- 48LA.

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He said that the enforcement officers of LASTMA were the first emergency responders at the scene of the accident.
Adebayo said they had called other emergency responders to join in the rescue.

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