{"id":19375,"date":"2024-08-28T12:01:43","date_gmt":"2024-08-28T12:01:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/?p=19375"},"modified":"2024-08-28T12:01:43","modified_gmt":"2024-08-28T12:01:43","slug":"several-passengers-injured-as-two-brt-buses-collide-in-lagos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/?p=19375","title":{"rendered":"Several Passengers Injured as Two BRT Buses Collide in Lagos"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Several passengers were injured in a late-night collision involving two Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) buses at the Iyana Ipaja area of Lagos on Tuesday. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The accident occurred within the BRT lane on the Lagos-Abeokuta Expressway, near Danco Filling Station.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The Lagos State Traffic Management Authority reported that the injured passengers were taken to a nearby medical facility for treatment, and fortunately, no fatalities were reported.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Nosa Okunbor, the head of the public affairs unit of the Lagos State Emergency Management Agency, stated that the collision happened when one BRT bus tried to avoid hitting a commercial motorcyclist illegally using the BRT corridor, leading to a crash with an oncoming BRT bus.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Okunbor added that passengers from both buses sustained varying degrees of injuries and were taken to the hospital before the emergency response team arrived. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Additionally, two tow trucks were deployed to remove the damaged buses from the road, ensuring traffic could flow smoothly again.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Several passengers were injured in a late-night collision involving two Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) buses at the Iyana Ipaja area of Lagos on Tuesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":19376,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19375","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-metro"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19375"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19375"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19375\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19377,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19375\/revisions\/19377"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/19376"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}