Monday, November 11, 2024 - A yet-to-be-identified male adult suspected to be a thief was on Sunday found lying unconscious after being knocked down by a hit-and-run driver in the Abule Egba area of Lagos State.
According to Punch, the suspect had broken into an apartment in the
community in the early hours of Friday when some residents saw him.
To avoid being apprehended, he was said to have taken to his heels while
some residents chased him.
While fleeing the community, he suddenly ran into the expressway and got
hit by a speeding vehicle in the process.
Our correspondent during a visit to the community on Sunday saw the
suspect with swollen eyes and bruised body still lying on the roadside just by
the edge of the Abule Egba bridge.
A trader, Ganiyat Enitan, who owns a shop close to the bridge,
told PUNCH Metro that the accident victim had been on the spot
since the incident happened.
He said, “We met him there on Friday morning and he has been there since
then. We were told that he was caught scaling a fence at midnight and those who
saw him decided to chase him. He was trying to run across to the other side
when he ran into a vehicle that knocked him down.”
During a closer look, our correspondent discovered that he was still
breathing as his legs moved at intervals.
Another business owner who identified himself simply as Sesan said he
was initially lying on the bridge walkway before he rolled into the main road.”
“We saw him this morning on the main road. It was later that some LASTMA
officials came to put a tyre behind him as a caution to prevent vehicles from
climbing him.”
Meanwhile, a transport worker, Saheed Adekunle, has urged the state
government to evacuate him from the spot before he gets run over by a vehicle.
He said, “We want the state government to come and remove him from here.
If he spends longer time on the road where he is now, I am sure he will be
crushed by a vehicle. The tyre LASTMA put there is not enough to stop that.
Those trucks you see drive roughly and often climb the walkway. So, how much
more on the road where is lying.”
All the calls made on Sunday to the spokesperson for the Lagos State
Emergency Management Authority, Nosa Okunbor, were not responded to while a
text message sent to him had yet to be replied to when this report was filed.
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