7 injured in accident, as emergency responders fail to show up

Seven people escaped death, yesterday afternoon, as the mini-bus, popularly
called Korope , they were travelling in was rammed into at Oshodi.

An eyewitness, Ojo Bose, said the mini-bus, with number plates Epe 960XL,
was heading towards Oshodi from Anthony end of the Apapa-Oshodi
Expressway, when from nowhere a car rammed into it.

Bose said: “Immediately, the mini-bus somersaulted several times before
landing on its four tyres with the seven passengers on board sustaining various
degrees of injuries.
“But the car that rammed into the bus, obviously over-speeding, ran away.”
The seven passengers, four males and three females, were seen writhing in
pains as efforts to get Lagos State Emergency Management Agency, LASEMA,
and other responders proved abortive.
Calls were put across to the emergency number 767, but the officer on the
other end promised to get across to the responders.
After waiting for close to 45 minutes, onlookers had to stop some yellow
painted buses to take the victims that had lost considerable blood to the
hospital.