Three persons have been crushed to death and several others injured on Wednesday when a Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) vehicle collided with another commercial bus full of passengers at Alapere in the Ketu area of Lagos State.

Newsmen gathered that the BRT, with number plate KSF-940XX, had a brake failure when the incident happened around 7am.

According to one of the eye witnesses, Bolarinwa Adelakun, the incident occured when the BRT vehicle suffered brake failure and crashed into the commercial bus and in the process, crushed three people to death and injured many others. 

Another eye witness, Chukwuemeka Sunday, said the BRT vehicle crushed a woman who was coming from the market, an apprentice trying to cross the road and a wheelbarrow pusher.

The victims were said to have died on the spot as the BRT driver fled the scene.

Confirming the incident, LASTMA Director of Public Affairs, Taofiq Adebayo, said the accident occurred around 7am and claimed three lives.

He said, “The accident involved a red BRT bus which had a brake failure, and a Volkswagen, popularly called Danfo.

“Preliminary investigation shows that the accident took the lives of three pedestrians waiting to board buses around the Ketu axis.

“The three dead persons were taken by the State Environmental Health Monitoring Unit to a mortuary and the eight people seriously injured were taken to a general hospital by the Lagos State Ambulance Service.”

Adebayo noted that the incident was an unfortunate one and enjoined citizens to make use of designated bus-stops and pedestrian bridges to avoid future occurrences. 

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