₦airaland Forum

The driver and conductor of a BRT bus have fled for their lives, abandoning passengers to their fate, as a BRT bus caught fire at Maryland, Lagos State, on Saturday morning.
Our correspondent, who was at the scene of the incident, said that the vehicle departed from Ikorodu en route to CMS when the sad incident occurred.

As of the time this report was filed, emergency responders, including officers of the Nigeria Police Force, the Lagos State Traffic Management Authority (LASTMA), fire services, and local security personnel, arrived at the scene to contain the blaze.

Firefighters at the scene.
One of the passengers on the bus told our correspondent the fire started as smoke from the driver’s side.

According to her, the passengers initially thought the smoke emanated from other buses; however, the slight smoke soon worsened, immediately sending them into panic mode.

“As soon as we saw that the smoke grew bigger, we immediately rushed off the bus before the fire ignited”, she said, adding that none of the passengers sustained any injury.

She added that the driver fled the scene immediately after the fire started.

“The driver and the conductor ran away. They didn’t even wait to see what would happen to us.

“Definitely, they knew what happened. They knew the bus was bad before putting it on the road and risking our lives,” she alleged.

She added that the driver fled the scene immediately after the fire started.

“The driver and the conductor ran away. They didn’t even wait to see what would happen to us.

latiephwald:
This is not BRT bus,

Kirchoffs:
The useless VIO and FRSC won't inspect all this commercial vehicles for road worthiness certificate, na people like us dem go dey disturb most of these busses should be scrapped out of the roads.

teeteepeejay:
On VIO, yes those useless lots would never hold those buses.

On the buses being scrapped of the road, na still Nigerians go cry about two things:

1. What alternative was provided for the drivers. Their means of livelihood has been cut short
2. If many buses fall in this category, and there is a short fall in number of available commercial buses and in turn a heavy wait time to get buses or people being stranded for long hours, Nigerians are still the ones to shout that the whole thing was not well thought out.

Kirchoffs:
The useless VIO and FRSC officials won't inspect all this commercial vehicles for road worthiness certificate, na people like us dem go dey disturb most of these busses should be scrapped out of the roads.