Extreme visitors congestion was recorded on the Lagos–Ibadan Expressway on Saturday morning following an accident involving a truck that toppled and blocked a bit of the highway.
The incident occurred within the early hours across the Ogere Bridge space, disrupting visitors circulate for automobiles travelling in direction of Ibadan, Saapade, Alapako and neighbouring communities.
Findings confirmed that the obstruction pressured motorists to divert to the alternative lane, which in flip triggered critical gridlock on the Lagos-bound carriageway, affecting motion in direction of Mowe, Ibafo and surrounding areas.
As of the time of reporting, visitors on each side of the expressway had come to a close to standstill, with many highway customers stranded for a number of hours.
It was gathered that the truck fell late on Friday evening, however the ensuing congestion worsened by Saturday morning as visitors quantity elevated.
Personnel of the Nigeria Police Pressure and the Federal Street Security Corps had been deployed to the scene to handle visitors and work in direction of restoring free motion.
Officers on the location, who declined to be named as they weren’t authorised to talk to the media, attributed the incident to a mechanical fault.
They disclosed that efforts had been ongoing to clear the obstruction and reopen not less than one lane to ease the gridlock and scale back the hardship confronted by motorists.
