Two vehicles have plunged into a canal in front of the National Theatre, Iganmu, Lagos, bringing to four, the number of such occurrences in the canal in the past three months.
A wine-colour Opel Omega occupied by three brothers plunged into the canal at about 9a.m. on Monday while a Toyota Camry painted in ash colour fell into the canal on Sunday night.
The driver of the Camry was the only occupant and all the four people in the two vehicles were alive.
The Opel Omega was marked JJN 583 AA and the Camry GGE 196 AR.
Report indicates that the Camry car took off from the National Theatre some seconds before it skidded off the road and plunged into the canal.
Ifeanyi Stephen, an occupant of the Opel Omega, said that he took no notice of the canal. “We were driving and thinking that the road was straight because we are not conversant with this route. By the time we got there, we saw that the place was water-logged. We applied the brake but the car didn’t stop. That was how the car fell into the water,” he told NAN.
Ariyo Jimoh, an Officer of the Lagos State Transport Management Authority in charge of the area, confirmed the incidents.
“The information we got is that the two vehicles ran into the canal. When we heard, we quickly sent our men to control traffic there. Two vehicles were involved, but there were no casualties.”
Meanwhile, motorists have appealed to the Lagos State Government to put barricades on both sides of the large canal to prevent such occurrences.
“The Ministry of Transport should put appropriate road signs in place,” Lukman Aremu, who plies the route daily, said
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