At least seven picnickers going to the Alpha beach, Lekki, for fun were killed on Sunday, in a ghastly motor accident which occurred along the Lekki-Epe Expressway. P.M.News gathered that the 22-seater Volkswagen Faragon bus conveying the picnickers, numbering about nine, to the beach, sommersaulted after colliding with another vehicle.
The accident, which occurred around 6.15 p.m., led to a taffic jam along the expressway, as sympathisers and passersby did all they could to rescue the trapped occupants.
Narrating the incident to P.M.News, a friend of one of the victims, who was in another vehicle when the accident occurred, stated: “The Volkswagen Faragon bus carrying the picnickers to the beach was around Still Water Estate, near Ilasan Bus Stop, when a car coming out of the Total Filling Station on the other side of the road, drove recklessly into the major road.
pmnews-cover-14-october-20.jpg“This forced the driver of the Faragon bus to swerve to the right lane, and in the process lost control and the vehicle somersaulted several times.”
Investigations revealed that sympathisers and passersby rushed to help the victims, but the vehicle was so mangled that they had difficulty bringing the trapped picknickers out.P.M.News gathered that corpses of six of the occupants of the vehicle who died in the accident were taken to the mortuary of the Lagos Island General Hospital.
When P.M.News got to the scene, a corpse, identified as that of Ibrahim Murhi, was still on the expressway.
“In all, seven persons lost their lives and several others were seriously injured in the accident. Even a lady lost her right eye during the accident,” an eyewitness told P.M.News.
Another witness at the scene said: “Most of the victims could have survived if they were rescued on time. The victims lost a lot of blood and before a rescue team came, they were already dead.”
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