LASTMA Rescues Woman, 9-Year-Old Son Trapped Under Truck

• Nigerians on social media lauded the operatives and noted the efforts by LASTMA have averted a major disaster
• Meanwhile, a mother and her nine-year-old child were trapped underneath a truck in the Iyana-Ipaja area of Lagos state on Tuesday, December 26 

At the Danco Filling Station in Iyana-Ipaja, Lagos State, on Tuesday, agents of the Lagos State Traffic Management Authority located a mother and her nine-year-old child who had become trapped beneath a fully loaded sand truck.

According to a statement issued by Adebayo Taofiq, the agency’s director of public affairs and education, the woman and her kid suffered serious injuries when the driver of the sand diesel truck with licence plate AGL-48 YD lost control of the vehicle.

Taofiq stated that the injured mother, her child, and the truck driver were taken to the General Hospital in the area for emergency medical attention by an ambulance from the State Environmental Health Monitoring Unit while policemen from the Ile-Epo Division supplied security cover until the overturned truck was completely removed from the road to allow for unhindered traffic flow

However, the acting General Manager, LASTMA, Bakare Oki, appealed to drivers to obey speed limits.

The statement partly reads “A mother and her nine-year-old son were saved by LASTMA officials under an upturned fully loaded sand truck today around Lagos – Abeokuta Expressway by Danco Filling Station inward Iyana-Ipaja area of Lagos.

“The driver of the upturned sand diesel truck (AGL 48 YD) lost control and got overturned as a result of reckless driving with a mother and her nine-year-old son including the driver seriously injured.

“Immediate investigation revealed that the truck driver lost control due to reckless driving and got upturned while dragging right of way with another heavily loaded containerised trailer inward underneath Iyana-Ipaja Bridge.

“LASTMA officials from Zone 16 led by Salau Akeem (Alfa) carried out the rescue operations while an ambulance from the State Environmental Health Monitoring Unit (SEHMU) took the injured mother and her son including the truck driver to General Hospital for immediate medical treatment.

“Policemen from the Ile-Epo Police Division provided security backup till the upturned truck was fully evacuated from the road for free vehicular movement.”