Woman Dived Out Of Window To Save Her Baby In Lagos Luxury Bus Accident
More accounts have emerged on the events leading to the crash of a 59-passenger luxury bus on its way from Aba, Abia State, which plunged into a canal at Owode Elede, Lagos, killing three passengers and injuring 23 others. A passenger in the bus, Kenneth Ohai, said as the bus hit the median around 3am on Friday morning and veered off the road, nosediving into the canal in the process, the child his co-passenger was carrying on her lap bounced off the window and fell into the water. He said the woman immediately dived out of the window to save her baby. The Lagos State Emergency Management Agency confirmed to Punch that the unidentified woman and her child were unharmed, as they were both rescued after. According to LASEMA, the child could not have been more than one year old. Ohai, who was also one of the unharmed passengers rescued at the scene, explained that he believed that the driver must have been momentarily distracted before the crash. “It was not as if there was a tyre blowout...