Seriki Adeyinka, an official of the Lagos State Traffic Management Authority
(LASTMA), has told TheNation, how a taxi driver hit her and drove off on high
speed while she hung on the bonnet of his car in Ikorodu.
TheNation quoted her as saying the incident happened around 6:35 pm on
Thursday, noting that she was on the car’s bonnet from Igbogbo garage on
Ikorodu road to Oluwanishola filling station on Baiyeku road.
“I was at my duty post with another colleague. Usually, anytime from 4pm,
traffic gets busy in the area. We were controlling the traffic when the taxi
driver was coming and also picking passengers at the middle of the road, he
caused a lot of traffic behind him.
We told him to leave the middle of the road but he refused, I was trying to
stop him to let him know that what he was doing on the road was bad, but
while he sped off, he hit me with the car and I fell on the bonnet of the
car.
If I had not fallen on the bonnet, the car will have crushed on me. When I fell
on the bonnet, instead of him to wait, he moved on with a high speed. I
struggled to hold something on the bonnet; he still drove on high speed and
was swerving, trying to throw me down but I held something.
While the car was moving people were trying to stop him but he was speeding
and no one could stop him. Even when a trailer was coming, he tried to swerve
me to the trailer maybe I would fall off from the bonnet, but as God would
have it, I did not fall because I was holding the bonnet tightly.
But thank God an eyewitness who was driving behind was later able to overtake
him and he stopped at Oluwanishola filling station on Baiyeku road”
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