27-year-old jumped to death from moving vehicle

A 27-year-old woman, Lucy Gbagyo, has died after jumping from a speeding commercial bus in the Shogunle area of Lagos State.

 

The Benue State indigene was said to have been on her way to visit her fiancé, Philip Nguhwa to enable them discuss preparations for their wedding which was to have come up on Februar7 17, 2015.  The two have courted for four years.

 

 

 According to Punch, 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.”

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.

The driver of the vehicle and the conductor are still at the police station.  But from information gathered, the relatives of the deceased said they are not interested in pursuing the case with the police.  That they had written a letter to that effect to the police.  All they want is for the deceased body to be release to them for burial.