Friday, March 29, 2024

How hit-and-run driver crushed woman leaving bank premises

hit-and-run driver has crushed a woman, coming out from the premises of a second generation bank in Lagos, to death.

Eyewitnesses around the bank, located near the Eleganza Plaza, along the Lagos-Badagry expressway, Suru-Alaba in the Orile area, said that the unidentified woman, who was carrying a handbag, was crushed by a Toyota Highlander car as she attempted to cross the busy highway to the other side.

An eyewitnesses, Mohammed Sabo, said the woman was caught unawares as she was crossing the expressway and the vehicle moving on top speed, immediately crushed her.

Sabo said the woman’s intestine gushed out and many people, who saw her corpse, shed tears.

According to him; “I was carrying tiles in my wheel-barrow when the car hit the woman. I was alarmed when the car sped past me, but before I could shout that the woman should run, the car had already ran over her! I could not cry out, but I was hurt internally. The car escaped from the scene, but a police patrol vehicle gave the driver a hot chase. I later heard that the police arrested the driver and brought the car to Orile Police Station.”

A female trader, who simply identified herself as Mama Angela, said, “I wanted to cross the expressway, but saw the vehicle coming at top speed. I decided to wait. That was when one woman, fair in complexion, tried to cross the express. I couldn’t shout because the vehicle was already too close to her. All I did was to put my hands on my head, but the car killed her! I wept. The car killed such a beautiful woman. Her bag flew to another direction while she remained stiff in the pool of her blood.

“I had never seen a vehicle kill somebody since I was I born. I cried like a baby. The driver, after killing her, did not stop. People began to yell and policemen in a patrol vehicle attached to Orile Police Station chased the car. It was later that we heard that the police apprehended the driver and drove the vehicle to the police station. The woman, I suspected, was coming out from the bank.”

Another woman, who also identified herself as Nkechi, said, “It was not the fault of the driver. Here is an expressway. Before you cross the expressway, you must look, not only to one side in Lagos, but to both sides. The woman, from what I heard, did not look well. Probably, something was bothering her. She was not concentrating and she just walked to the expressway without watching out for vehicles. They said she just left the bank before the car killed her.

“It is not the driver’s fault. But a human being has been killed. The man must be arrested and charged for man slaughter. The only mistake the driver made was trying to escape from the scene. The police followed him with their vehicle and arrested him and his vehicle at Mile Two area and brought them back to Orile Police Station. Imagine, such a beautiful woman. She was so pretty that even the men wept for her.”

A police inspector attached to Orile Police Station, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said, “Immediately the accident occurred, policemen from this division chased the vehicle, a Toyota Highlander, and blocked the driver at Mile Two bus stop. The police brought him and the car to the station. Our Divisional Police Officer (DPO), CSP Olorunwa Ogundele has also ordered that the case be charged
to court.”

Matthew Dike, Ajegunle, Lagos.

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