Reckless Police Driver Reportedly Hits A Nursing Mother And Her Baby

A reckless police driver behind the wheels of a van attached to the Festac police station has been accused of hitting a woman and her baby, causing brain damage in the nursing mother and broken jaw to the baby.

Several sources related to the woman told SaharaReporters that the accident happened on June 23, 2013 as the police driver sped dangerously against the flow of traffic on a one-way lane along the busy Oshodi-Apapa Road, hitting down the unsuspecting woman and her baby.

“The accident was avoidable, and could have been avoided if the police man obeyed simple traffic regulation that marked the road as one-way,” said a relative of the injured woman. “Now, the action of this [police] man has resulted in serious brain injury to the mother.”

The baby, Ammarah Anjolaiya, also suffered deep facial cuts and a broken jaw.

 

 

The source revealed that the accident happened at Church bus stop along the Oshodi-Apapa express road. An eyewitness said the victim, Taskirat Anjolaiya, was alighting from a public bus with her child and had not noticed the furious police van coming from the wrong traffic direction towards her.

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