A 27-year-old woman, Lucy Gbagyo, has died after jumping from a speeding commercial bus in the Shogunle area of Lagos State.
Punch learnt that the Benue State indigene was on her way to see her fiance, Philip Nguhwa, on Sunday evening for preparations for their wedding when the incident happened.Gbagyo and Nguhwa were to have their wedding on February 27, 2015, having courted for four years.
It was learnt that on the fateful day, the deceased had boarded a vehicle from the Toll Gate end of the Lagos-Abeokuta Expressway en route to Ilori Street in the Shogunle area where Nguhwa lives.
The bus driver was said to have sped past her destination and she began to shout for him to stop.The driver allegedly ignored her and continued with the journey.When her cries fell on deaf ears, she reportedly forced the door open and jumped out.
Her fiance, Nguhwa, a trader, said the driver immediately stopped the vehicle as other passengers and sympathisers in the area rushed to save the victim.He said,
“One of them picked her phone and checked the last dialled number. He saw my number and called me. He said I should rush down to the bus stop.
“When I got there, I called her name and she opened her eyes faintly and shut them again. We all carried her into the bus and rushed her to the Lagos State University Teaching Hospital.
“We had not gone too far when she died in the vehicle. When we got to the hospital, she was confirmed dead on arrival.”
Punch learnt that the victim, who was into the business of buying clothes in Lagos and selling them in Benue, had lost her father in a motor accident in January.
Our correspondent learnt that the police arrested both the driver and the conductor of the vehicle.But a relative, Felix Agu, told our correspondent the family was not interested in pursuing the case.
Agu said,
“We have written a letter to withdraw the matter. All we want is for her corpse to be released to us for burial. The family stays in Benue and everybody wants her buried in her home town.”
The driver and bus conductor should be prosecuted cos they refused the lady to alight at her bus stop
ReplyDeleteWhy prosecute them? Some passengers can be so annoying. Some won't tell the driver where to stop on time, immediately they reach their destination, they expect the driver to apply automatic break. R.I.P to the dead.
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King duby you are a cow. You will die a busy driver...cow!!!
Delete@ Anonymous 08:34 you and your entire family and generation will remain anonymous (unknown) till the day you guys will die a miserable death. You will never see good in your life. Mark my word. If you are sensible enough, u won't go about talking to people you don't even know if they are human beings anyhow. Am entitled to my own opinion. After all I wasn't talking about the girl.
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Anon,kilode?
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But I think she thought she was being kidnapped or something. God rest her soul.
Even though some drivers can be reckless on the road, she wasn't supposed to jump out that way. I mean she wasn't the only passenger on the bus? And to think the dad just died on the road too? They need to check well ooo... May her soul RIP.!!
ReplyDeletePeople should be very careful at this season the kind of bus they will board. The lady might have thought she was in a one chance bus after she shouted the bus be stopped and could only resort to jumping out of a speeding bus when her plea fell on deaf ears
ReplyDeleteMy thought exactly.awww so sad rip to d lady
DeleteStevosky, perhaps she was too scared that she hss finally boarded ONE CHANCE, so she needed to show them the had some Tiquando in her System.. Too bad she died, now some would say its a Remote SONTING...
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Ehyah, so she ddn't see 2015, RIP sis
ReplyDeleteAww! May her soul RIP
DeleteSo sad may Her soul rest in peace
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ReplyDeleteSo sad. What was she even thinking. RIP DEAR.
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May her soul RIP.....
ReplyDeleteSo sad.. RIP. IT İŞ WELL
ReplyDeleteAiih painful death RIP
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It could be the driver hadn't reached the busstop the deceased passenger could alight that was why he ignored her.I know ilori street in shogunle very well.That road is not a busstop.If lastma catches any driver who stops to either pick or drop passenger will be arrested and made to pay heavy fine.You know how lagos state govt fine traffic offenders as if they are plucking money from trees.
ReplyDeleteThis is so touching. Rip...
ReplyDeleteNawa, she Wud av waited instead of jumping out of a moving vehicle Or maybe she thought its a one chance vehicle
ReplyDeleteShe thought it was a one chance bus, that's why she jumped. See death sha. RIP babe.
ReplyDeleteThis is not normal, it's the work of the witches. I still don't get why she jumped. RIP
ReplyDeleteEeeya RIP
ReplyDeleteWhat a terrible way to die,she shouldn't have jumped out of the bus to her death,these bus drivers can be mean sometimes..
ReplyDeleteMay her soul rest in peace.amen
ReplyDeleteWow may her soul rest in peace
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