A hit-and-run driver around 7 am, Tuesday crushed to death a young man, identified as Oluwayemi Oguntimehin, along the Mafoluku, Oshodi Express-way, Lagos.
An eyewitness, Ilesanmi Olabode, who gave graphic details of the incident saidwas on his way to his office when the accident occurred.
“It was around 7am when I was going to my office. I just saw that the guy, while trying to cross the expressway, being overrun by the car.
“I quickly rushed there and with the support of some other people, we carried him to the Mafoluku/Gbagada bus stop.
“I saw that he was still alive but all the vehicles we tried to flag down to help us take him to the Gbagada General Hospital refused to stop, including a Lagos State Emergency bus.”
Olabode, who works with a fast food company, added that a tricycle however stopped, but because there were not enough people to support, the victim was left to die.
He said he handed over the victim to an official of the Lagos State Traffic Management Authority, who promised to call his colleagues to evacuate him.
“But to my surprise, when I came back to check, I saw that Oguntimehin was still on the road and was now dead. One of his two ATM cards, which I saw on him, was missing. I believed it had been stolen,” he said.
The General Secretary, Council of Oworonsoki Youth Forum, Mr. Kabiawu Babajide, told our correspondent that Oguntimehin was identified through his UBA ATM card.
Babajide decried the attitude of government to the people in the area, stressing that the spate of avoidable deaths from accident on the road was becoming worrisome.
He said, “We have witnessed too many deaths of students, church members, hospital staff, and PHCN workers on this Gbagada road.
“It is unfortunate that since 1979, the Federal Government does not have any contingency plan to save the populace from these frequent tragedies that normally occur at Mafoluku and Gbagada bus stops.”