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Posted: Thu Aug 04, 2011 1:19 am

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/travel/news/article.cfm?c_id=7&objectid=10742927

The dangers of public transport in Nigeria.

Posted: Thu Aug 04, 2011 1:36 am

The local press has the full story........................

http://odili.net/news/source/2011/aug/3/602.html

Meanwhile in the leafy suburbs of Lagos.............

http://odili.net/news/source/2011/aug/3/7.html

Posted: Thu Aug 04, 2011 2:10 am

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...accidents are also common on Nigeria's poorly maintained roads. Drivers often travel at high speed and overtake slower vehicles, leading to head-on collisions with high death rates.

From a memoir of s bus trip from Lagos to Kano:

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[The bus driver]... felt no need to pass cars as long as he was on wide, straight stretches of road. But when he sighted a blind bend or, better yet, an oncoming cattle truck... he was suddenly seized with the desire to overtake the vehicle ahead, which he did while leaning on his horn and despite howls of protest from the passengers behind me. The wreckage of four head-on collisions – which included corpses – that we roared by in the first hour of our trip did nothing to temper his lust for speed. At times, in fact, so irresistibly did he feel the need to overtake that he passed the car in front of us as it was passing the car in front of it, thereby turning the highway into a three-vehicle-deep wall of death for anything approaching from the other direction.

Posted: Thu Aug 04, 2011 2:30 am

Wait, and it wasn't even the Sagbama Expressway?!?! Shocked

Posted: Thu Aug 04, 2011 2:47 pm

Didn't JoJoBean have a mugu get injured in a bus accident while on safari?

Bruin

Posted: Fri Aug 05, 2011 11:16 pm

Angry poster on NaijaPals:

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A.M Friday august 5Th 2011; I picked a London metro newspaper to read
and was shocked to read an article on page 32 by one JOEL TAYLOR
titled "HIT-RUN DRIVER KILLS 14 ROBBERY VICTIMS".
"A BUS DRIVER RAN OVER AND CRUSHED 14 PASSENGERS ORDERED TO LIE IN THE MIDDLE OF A ROAD AFTER THEIR OWN BUS WAS HIJACKED AND ROBBED.
ALL 14 OF THE PASSENGERS, INCLUDING A CHILD , WERE KILLED
ON THE ROUTE FROM LAGOS TO THE NIGERIAN CAPITAL ABUJA
IN THE EARLY HOURS OF TUESDAY................................................"
Now on the 9th march 2010, one AYEMOKHIA, posted similar story on naija pals. with the picture and that incident happened according to the driver in that post, on the 31St July 2009. even one TOKS-E , in his comment also confirmed that the incident happened in 2009.
so this London metro report that they claimed happened Tuesday 2Nd
august 2011 on the way to Abuja from Lagos ; where do they get it from?
is it a fresh incident that duplicated the 2009 incident?
if it is a false report, this is a slap on the face of all Nigerians because this report will be read my millions of all nations, cause distress to we Nigerians especially.
i think we should make our voice known over this issue.
this is part of what we in naija pals stand for.
or what do we think?

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