Car Kills Mechanic, Throws Him Off Obalende Bridge (Graphic Shots)

Tragedy occurred on Obalende Bridge on Saturday at

about 4pm when a fast moving Kia saloon car with plate

number JJJ 537 DP crushed a mechanic, identified simply

as Waidi to death and threw him off the bridge.

The victim’s body, it was learnt, landed in a residential

area under the bridge with broken head and legs.

When P.M.NEWS correspondent arrived the scene at about

4.25pm huge crowd had gathered on the Obalende bridge

trying to catch a glimse of the scene, while the police from

the Lion Building Division and the officials of the

ambulance section of the Lagos Island General Hospital

were also seen evacuating the corpse of the victim into a

van with registration number SMK 302 BK to the mortuary.

Officials of the Lagos State Traffic Management Authority,

LASTMA, were around to control the heavy traffic that had

built up on the bridge.

An eyewitness informed our correspondent that the

accident occurred when the victim, a resident of Bariga

area of Lagos drop off a bus atop the Obalende bridge and

dashed across the road to the other side to continue his

journey, unknown to him that a fast moving car was

approaching.

According to a motorist, Solomon Ikhide, “dropping

picking up of passengers by bus drivers has been causing

fatal accidents on the bridge daily.

“Though the police at the Lion Building Division led by the

DPO in charge, CSP Antonia Tanaruno and the

LASTMAastma officials at Olowu have been doing their

best to dislodge the drivers, I am now appealing to the

Chairman of the Lagos State Task Force on Environmental

Sanitation, SP Olubukola Abe to please deploy his men

atop the Obalende bride to assist the police stop illegal

loading of passengers to prevent accidents and the

untimely deaths on the bridge.”

Another eyewitness, Mr Jude Eshiet, said accidents have

claimed the lives of more than ten passengers on the

bridge this year alone.

“Security officials should henceforth not allow the death

toll to continue and any driver arrested there loading or

dropping passengers should be charged to court to serve

as a deterrent to others,” Eshiet said.

Efforts made to contact the Task Force Chairman for

comment was frustrated by the Unit’s PRO.