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| A heavy duty truck trying to get across the New Benin Lagos Road junction |
The ever busy New Benin traffic junction is faced with another danger looming in the face of traders, pedestrians, motorist and traffic management officials within the New Benin/New Lagos Road junction.
This is my experience on Sunday the 21st day of July, 2024 on my way for an assignment at about 7:25am, I overheard a loud horn of a heavy vehicle and I looked behind and saw a SINOTRUCK in a top speed facing my vehicle from the rare while my own vehicle was carefully driven passed the bad spot at the front of LATO Shops.
As carefully as passing the bad spot, we heard people shouting. Behold, the trailer almost ran into us if not for God's kindness.
We carefully asked the trailer driver who suddenly came to a halt, what was pursuing him, he said the road was free and he didn't notice the bad spot on time.
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| This very spot has daily sent so many road users to the hospital in the past eight months |
According to some eyewitnesses who sympathized with us amidst the celebration that we were not crushed, they said it has become a daily routine for vehicles to ram into each other at that very spot.
"For almost eight months now, there is hardly a day we don't rescue people from an accident here. This place has become a nightmare to everyone of us here".
Another respondent who claimed to be a trader but pleaded anonymity said, "some weeks ago, a fully loaded trailer fell here and crushed a TOYOTA SIENNA vehicle. Thank God it was only the driver that was inside and he was rescued unhurt immediately. I don't know why the government is neglecting this place".
Another eyewitness said, "this place started from a very small spot and when the rainy season started, the spot grew to what it is now and it is causing serious danger here".
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| Commercial mini buses maneuver through the pedestrian lane |
A respondent who complained bitterly about the reoccurrence of the bad spot said, "this very place was fixed about three years ago. What is happening again? Was it that the materials used were not of quality standard? Was it poorly done? What has actually happened here? Is this how we will be rushing out daily to rescue accident victims? I am hopeful that a government who really means well for the people will come one day to fix it, but before then, what can we do to stop this incessant accident?".
At the time of these interactions with eyewitnesses, another HOWOTRUCK almost ran into a MAZDA 6 which was conveying a family of six to church.
However, there are strong appeals to the Edo State and Federal Government to fix the bad spot with quality standard materials in order not to impose further dangers.
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