Primero Transport Services Ltd, operators of Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) in Lagos State, has expressed regret over an accident that claimed two lives on Wednesday.
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the accident, involving a BRT bus and a commercial motorcycle operator carrying two passengers, took place on BRT lane at Ile-Igbo inward Abule-Egba area of Lagos.
The firm, in a statement by its Head of Corporate Communications, Mr. Mutiu Yekeen, commiserated with the family of the victims.
Narrating the accident, Yakeen said at about 4 a.m, a bus heading to Abule-Egba from Oshodi, was involved in an accident that claimed the lives of two on the spot.
“A commercial motorcyclist, according to the Busman, appeared from nowhere on the BRT corridor.
“The driver who could not avoid the motorcycle which had no headlamp and was facing the oncoming bus, knocked down the victims,” Yekeen added.
According to him, the driver of the BRT bus quickly ran to Oke-Odo police station to report the matter.
He added that when the Lagos State Emergency Management Agency (LASEMA) team arrived at the scene, two people were discovered to have died on the spot and were taken away by the team.
Yekeen said that the third person was taken to the hospital by the emergency team.
