{"id":39798,"date":"2024-07-03T05:04:40","date_gmt":"2024-07-03T05:04:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/father-son-injured-as-bus-loses-control-on-lagos-abeokuta-expressway\/"},"modified":"2024-07-03T05:04:40","modified_gmt":"2024-07-03T05:04:40","slug":"father-son-injured-as-bus-loses-control-on-lagos-abeokuta-expressway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/father-son-injured-as-bus-loses-control-on-lagos-abeokuta-expressway\/","title":{"rendered":"Father, son injured as bus loses control on Lagos-Abeokuta expressway"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>The Ogun Traffic Compliance and Enforcement Corps, TRACE, has confirmed that a father and his son were injured as a commercial bus lost control on the Lagos-Abeokuta Expressway on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Adekunle Ajibade, South-West Zonal Commander of TRACE, confirmed the incident to the News Agency of Nigeria, NAN, in Ota, Ogun.<\/p>\n<p>Ajibade said that a commercial bus heading towards Lagos from Sango lost control due to brake failure and rammed into the man and his son, who were crossing the road.<\/p>\n<p>Ajibade said that the father had a sight problem and the son was leading him to cross the road at Tollgate when the accident happened at about 6.45 am.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe victims sustained various degrees of injuries and were taken to the State Hospital, Ota, for treatment, while no death was recorded from the incident,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Ajibade implored motorists to always ensure that their vehicles are in proper condition before putting them on the road.<\/p>\n<p>He also cautioned drivers against excessive speeding to prevent avoidable crashes.<\/p>\n<p>Father, son injured as bus loses control on Lagos-Abeokuta expressway<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Ogun Traffic Compliance and Enforcement Corps, TRACE, has confirmed that a father and his son were injured as a&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":39799,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10462,384,15],"tags":[4057,9120,2838,1228,1656,8872,933,387,180,1079],"class_list":["post-39798","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lagos-abeokuta","category-metro","category-news","tag-bus","tag-control","tag-expressway","tag-father","tag-injured","tag-lagos-abeokuta","tag-loses","tag-metro","tag-news","tag-son"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39798","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39798"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39798\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39799"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}