{"id":58073,"date":"2024-12-16T10:53:19","date_gmt":"2024-12-16T10:53:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=58073"},"modified":"2024-12-16T10:53:19","modified_gmt":"2024-12-16T10:53:19","slug":"accident-on-third-mainland-bridge-one-dead-four-injured","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2024\/12\/16\/accident-on-third-mainland-bridge-one-dead-four-injured\/","title":{"rendered":"Accident on Third Mainland Bridge: One Dead, Four Injured"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>By Emmanuel Ogbodo<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>A collision involving a J5 Ford bus and a Mercedes truck occurred Monday morning at Ilubirin, inward Sura, on Lagos&#8217; Third Mainland Bridge, leaving one person dead and four injured.<br \/>\nThe Lagos State Traffic Management Authority (LASTMA), confirmed the incident through its Director of Public Affairs, Adebayo Taofiq.<br \/>\nAccording to the statement, the J5 bus, loaded with pepper and perishable goods, suffered a brake failure, resulting in the crash.<br \/>\nLASTMA officials, led by General Manager Olalekan Bakare-Oki, conducted rescue operations alongside bystanders, rescuing four victims.<br \/>\nSadly, one passenger trapped in the bus died from injuries sustained. Survivors were rushed to Lagos Island General Hospital for emergency treatment.<br \/>\nEmergency response teams, including LASEMA, FRSC, and the Nigerian Police, collaborated with LASTMA to clear the wreckage and restore traffic, which had extended to the Unilag waterfront.<br \/>\nIn his statement, Bakare-Oki conveyed condolences to the victim&#8217;s family and stressed the importance of vehicle maintenance and safe driving, particularly during the festive season.<br \/>\nThe incident underscores the need for heightened road safety awareness among motorists, especially operators of heavy-duty vehicles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Emmanuel Ogbodo A collision involving a J5 Ford bus and a Mercedes truck occurred Monday morning at Ilubirin, inward Sura, on Lagos&#8217; Third Mainland Bridge, leaving one person dead and four injured. The Lagos State Traffic Management Authority (LASTMA), confirmed the incident through its Director of Public Affairs, Adebayo Taofiq. According to the statement, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":58074,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[256,1508],"class_list":["post-58073","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-frsc","tag-lasema"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58073","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58073"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58073\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58075,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58073\/revisions\/58075"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58074"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58073"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58073"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}