The Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) Ogun State Command, advised motorists planning to embark on a journey towards Lagos-Ibadan Expressway to look for alternative routes.
It said there is serious traffic jam in some sections of the expressway due to multiple breakdowns by trucks at different locations and have resulted in gridlocks.
The Command's Public Education Officer, Superintendent Route Commander Florence Okpe, who made this known, said most pronounced of the breakdowns occured with an overloaded truck travelling on speed out of Lagos conveying a container but loss control around the Kara Bridge and crossed the road divider blocking traffic on both sections of the Expressway, impairing traffic into and out of Lagos around the Kara bridge
She said the situation has affected traffic and the gridlock has snarled from the Kara Bridge towards Ibafo near Mowe and same situation also affecting traffic outward Lagos.
According to the PRO, two other obstruction cases occured earlier this morning and were cleared but the effect still impairing traffic around the Ibafo and Magboro axis up to the Kara construction areas of the corridor
She said FRSC, being assisted with other sister traffic management, security personnel and emergency agencies are on ground with recovery vehicles, but considering the period it could take to restore normalcy, adding that motorists planning to depart from Abeokuta or Ibadan for Lagos may use alternative corridors from Ogere to Sagamu interchange through Abeokuta to Ifo ,Ota, and Iyana Ipaja to connect into Lagos
The Ogun Stste Sector Commander of FRSC, Clement Oladele, has assured motoring public that the rescue team would remained on the scene to restore normalcy and advised motorists already in the traffic to remain calm and resist driving against traffic till normalcy is restored.
For traffic emergency, please call the FRSC toll free number 122 or contact the National Traffic Radio through www.ntr.com.ng .
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