{"id":63908,"date":"2025-04-07T12:45:50","date_gmt":"2025-04-07T12:45:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=63908"},"modified":"2025-04-07T12:45:50","modified_gmt":"2025-04-07T12:45:50","slug":"fresh-accident-sparks-concern-after-lagos-explosion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/04\/07\/fresh-accident-sparks-concern-after-lagos-explosion\/","title":{"rendered":"Fresh Accident Sparks Concern After Lagos Explosion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Adenike Lawal<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Another tragedy has struck the Otedola Bridge along the Lagos Ibadan Expressway, as a private vehicle plunged off the bridge early Monday morning, leaving four passengers seriously injured and raising fresh alarm over safety on the notorious route.<\/p>\n<p>Eyewitnesses described a chaotic scene as the car lost control and fell from the bridge, trapping all occupants inside.<\/p>\n<p>Passersby and early responders scrambled to rescue the victims before emergency services arrived at the scene.<\/p>\n<p>As of press time, it remains unclear if there were any fatalities, though the injuries sustained by the victims are reported to be severe.<\/p>\n<p>The crash immediately worsened traffic along the busy expressway, with vehicles crawling past the site as curious drivers slowed to catch a glimpse of the mangled car.<\/p>\n<p>This latest accident has reignited public anxiety, coming just days after a devastating explosion at the same location, where a gas laden truck overturned and burst into flames, killing at least six people.<\/p>\n<p>With two serious incidents in quick succession, residents and road safety advocates are calling for urgent measures to address the hazards plaguing the Otedola Bridge corridor.<\/p>\n<p>Authorities have yet to issue an official response, but investigations are underway as emergency teams work to clear the wreckage and determine the cause of the crash.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Adenike Lawal Another tragedy has struck the Otedola Bridge along the Lagos Ibadan Expressway, as a private vehicle plunged off the bridge early Monday morning, leaving four passengers seriously injured and raising fresh alarm over safety on the notorious route. Eyewitnesses described a chaotic scene as the car lost control and fell from the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":63909,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[59],"class_list":["post-63908","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-featured"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63908","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\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63908"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63908\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63910,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63908\/revisions\/63910"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/63909"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63908"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}