Control roads to avert accidents, residents urge govt, NURTW
By Motolani AbdulGafar
The residents of Ejigbo Local Council Development Area (LCDA) have called on the local council authority to put more control measures on the major roads in the community to avert incessant accidents that claim human lives.
The call came following the accident involving a white Toyota Camry without number plate along Ifelodun, Orisunmibare road last week which claimed the life of one person while eight others were injured.
The accident involved a pregnant woman and her three children was said to have been caused by over speeding as a motorcyclist ran into the oncoming vehicle according to eyewitness.
The incident occurred around 8:00 in the night.
“Although it was dark and I couldn’t capture all that happened due to commotion but that night I was carrying a passenger through that Orisunmibare road and I saw the car ahead of me from afar ran in the opposite direction to hit the woman and her children,” one of the Okada riders told ECHONEWS.
Three days after, another according accident involving a Toyota Sienna and a tricycle occurred at Akitan Close, Bakery bus stop in which a mother one week old baby were injured.
The baby escaped death as it was found under the Sienna and rescued alive.
Some of the residents and road users who spoke to ECHONEWS said there is need for the government to build speed breakers at close ranges on the major roads to regulate the speed of the drivers.
One of the resident s, Omolola Kabiru, explained that the Ejigbo community has been experiencing accidents in recent times due to the negligence of road users towards government’s directives.
“For instance in my area at Dauda Ilo the government just constricted the road for us early last year but I noticed that the speed breakers are far apart from one another, giving the reckless drivers the opportunity to drive at higher speeds which has been causing accident,” she explained.
She further stated: “In my opinion, the cause of the accidents is not the fault of the government because they are trying their best in creating an easy life for us but I will advise that speed breakers should be constructed closer to each other on the roads to at least regulate the speed level of reckless drivers.”
She also urged the leadership of the National Union of Road Transport Workers (NURTW) in Ejigbo to create a medium through which the commercial bus drivers who are members of the Union can be regularly educated on road signs, speed level and other important things they ought to know as drivers.
