Crash: Blocked section of Lagos-Ibadan Expressway reopens
Lagos State Traffic Management Authority (LASTMA) says it has reopened a section of the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway blocked Tuesday morning after a truck crashed on the Otedola Bridge.
LASTMA’s spokesman, Adebayo Taofiq, announced this in a statement on Tuesday evening.
LASTMA said the crash, which claimed a life and involved a truck laden with bags of wheat, had caused gridlock at the 7Up-Berger section of the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway.
The statement said LASTMA had also recovered the corpse of the crash victim – the truck conductor – under the Otedola Bridge and handed it over to the Lagos Environmental Health Monitoring Unit.
It added that the truck was recovered off the bridge, and the transloading of the wheat into another truck was completed.
According to LASTMA, preliminary investigations revealed that the driver could not control the truck due to brake failure at speed during heavy rainfall.
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