AS Alimosho people and indeed Lagosians go out for their daily activities, it is not out of place to take some time out to commit your day to God's hands!
Among other things we have to put up with, road users must be more careful now than ever. The truth is this; whether you are walking on the road, or standing by the side of the road, nowhere appears to be safe as our drivers seem to have cast all sense of road sanity to the wind.
In 2022, Alimosho LGA recorded the highest number of road accidents in Lagos State.
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However, in 2023, these accidents seem to have taken a new dimension, as over seven persons have lost their lives.
Just yesterday, one person died at the Idowu-Egba junction in the Igando-Ikotun LCDA when an SUV driver lost control, skidded across the median and rammed into incoming vehicles, including two commercial buses and a tricycle.
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The family of four in the Keke could not have envisaged this, as they were all on their way to church. A life was lost, vehicles damaged, and persons injured, all because one man was rushing off to only God knows where.
In February, two people died in an accident that happened at Unity Bus Stop, along Isheri-Igando Road, immediately after the Alimosho General Hospital, when a Honda Civic car lost control from the other end of the road as a result of speeding and rammed into a stationary PSP truck packing refuse by the roadside at Unity.
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Similarly, two ad-hoc female health workers and a man were killed on Monday, January 23, 2023, in a road accident around Alhaji Ede Bus Stop, along LASU Road, Igando. in the Igando-Ikotun LCDA of Alimosho LGA at about noon.
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The driver, who was said to have been driving at a high speed lost control and veered off the road to hit the victims who were standing by the side of the road.
Also, tragedy struck on Tuesday, January 31, 2023, in the Ikotun area of the Igando-Ikotun LCDA as a fully-loaded container truck collided with three tricycles and crushed one of them, killing two people instantly while four others were rescued.
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In this incident also, the tanker was said to be at speed.
Dear drivers, exercise caution as you go about your business. We cannot continue to lose our loved ones because of your negligence.
LASTMA and other Agencies of Government should also ensure vehicles that go beyond a certain speed range be impounded and drivers fined to serve as a deterrent to others.
