[JUST IN] Train-Bus Collision: BRT Driver Charged With Manslaughter

• The BRT driver who crashed into a train has been charged with manslaughter.

EKO HOT BLOG reports that the driver of a Lagos State Bus Rapid Transit, Osibanjo Oluwaseun, has been arraigned before an Ikeja High Court in connection with a collision he had with a moving train in Ikeja. The accident reportedly resulted in the deaths of six people.

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The defendant, who was arraigned before Justice Oyindamola Ogala, is facing 16 counts bordering on involuntary manslaughter and previous harm, preferred against him by the state government.

The Director of Public Prosecutions, Babajide Martins, told the court that the BRT driver negligently killed the victims by ignoring warning signals and ran into an on-coming train.

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He said the defendant also negligently inflicted grievous harm on 10 other passengers on the bus.

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