I have been on this issue since last week and I hope sooner of later more people will speak up and join this campaign so that lives will not continually be lost. Earlier this week, we heard about the unfortunate incident in the East where a container fell, crushed a car and killed 4 out of 6 members of the same family.
Today, I came across these pictures from Haulage Report Now of how their crew stumbled on this 'disaster-waiting-to-happen' on the Ojota 'Odoalaro' bridge linking Maryland, Lagos!
Every effort to force the driver to a stop with a view to getting them to do something about the fully loaded container that was almost falling off the latch was completely rebuffed. An attempt to rally the other road users to support their effort was also totally ignored. Everybody was basically all about getting past the dangerous vehicle as fast as possible!
They finally came across some LASTMA officials and put them on advance notice against the truck that was still several meters away but they were shocked when they were too engrossed with some folks that violated the BRT lane to be concerned about 'some' improperly latched container!
What is the way forward? Imagine the trailer carrying this container entering a bad pothole or climbing a bridge and approaching a bend? People let us be vocal about this issue now before another tragedy happens!
I hate them period!
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