By Ikenna Asomba

LAGOS — Save for mother luck, Mrs. Martina Nwizu, her son and four other occupants of a Nissan Quest with number plate LAGOS KJA.746CX, as well as Mr. Tony Ajeh, a Toyota Corolla driver with number plate LAGOS ME 436.AAA, would have been dead, when a fully-loaded articulated truck rammed into their vehicles, yesterday, at Otto Woff Bus-stop on the Oshodi-Apapa Expressway, Lagos.

Vanguard gathered that the accident occurred at 3.30p.m., as a result the uncoordinated flagging-down of vehicles by some policemen from the Kirikiri Police Station, who mounted a road-block on that portion of the road.

While Mrs. Nwizu and the occupants of her car were said to be heading to their house at Berger Suya area of Ajegunle, after spending their Christmas holiday in their village in Anambra State, Mr. Ajeh, was said to be heading to Kirikiri area of Ajegunle from Ilupeju, before the accident occurred.

Vanguard learned that the policemen had flagged down Mrs. Nwizu’s Nissan Quest car driven by her son, and at the same time flagged down Mr. Ajeh’s Toyota Corolla car, to request their vehicle particulars and other documents.

In the process, an articulated truck marked, LAGOS KJA.92KG, fully loaded with goods was also said to have been flagged down by the same policemen.

The truck driver simply identified as Hassan, was said to have seen the policemen late, which left him with no option than to ram into the Nissan Quest and Toyota Corolla cars, in a bid to stop.

Speaking to Vanguard, Mrs. Nwizu, who was full of thanks to God Almighty that no life was lost, said: “We were coming all the way from our ancestral home in Idemili North Local Government Area of Anambra State. If anyone of us had died, what would people say, that we travelled these long miles from the east only to be killed close to our home in Lagos?”

Giving his account, Mr. Ajeh, whose Toyota Corrolla was badly hit from behind, said: “I was just driving down and a policeman stopped me and I stopped. As I stopped, I appealed to him to allow me steer clear off the road, because it was dangerous to just park on a very busy expressway like this. Before I finished talking to him, a truck from no where rammed into my car.

“The policeman that stopped me is with no: 231776 from Kirikiri Police Station. We had no conversation before it happened, just that I was appealing to him to allow me park well, as he flagged me down, before the accident happened.”

At press time, the Divisional Crime Officer, DCO, of the Police Station was said to have directed that the affected vehicles be towed to the Kirikiri Police Station, where the victims would be made to write statements.