The Chairman, Lagos State House of Assembly  Committee on Commerce and Transportation, Mr Bisi Yusuf, has reminded Lagos residents of the restriction on movement of articulated vehicles and trucks.

Mr Yusuf told  our correspondent last Saturday in Lagos that the new traffic law in Lagos State had restricted movement of such vehicles to between 9 p.m. and 6 a.m.

 “The new traffic law has stated the period within which all trailers, container truck and haulage vehicles should move,’’ he said.

According to the lawmaker, the law stipulates that such vehicles are allowed to move from 9 p.m. to 6 a.m., but most of the drivers fail to comply with the law.

He said the law was meant to make other road users have free access to the road and drive without panicking.

It will be recalled that tragedy struck last Thursday at a bus stop in Ikeja along Lagos-Abeokuta Expressway when a heavily-loaded 40-foot container truck fell on a government meat van.

The container crushed a passerby to death and wounded several others.

Yusuf noted that if the accident had occurred at night the casualties would have been fewer.

“If the truck had fallen at night it wouldn’t have killed anybody but it occurred in the day time as a result of non-compliance with the state’s traffic law,” he said.

“If they (drivers) had obeyed the law this kind of thing would not have happened; the problem is that people are too selfish, they value profit more than human lives.”

He said stakeholders in transportation sector, including haulage operators and their drivers were  enlightened from time to time on the dangers of driving such vehicles during the day.

Yusuf said the House would raise the matter under matter of urgent public importance to call on the owners of trucks to stop the illegal movements.

He said the House would also compel truck drivers to attach containers properly to their vehicles and also to wait for the legitimate time before setting on their journeys.