{"id":12856,"date":"2025-08-25T09:50:50","date_gmt":"2025-08-25T09:50:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/trendzgh.net\/?p=12856"},"modified":"2025-08-25T09:50:49","modified_gmt":"2025-08-25T09:50:49","slug":"tragedy-on-third-mainland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/trendzgh.net\/index.php\/2025\/08\/25\/tragedy-on-third-mainland\/","title":{"rendered":"Tragedy on Third Mainland: Illegal Supercar Race After Seyi Vibez Show Ends in 2 Deaths"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 data-start=\"196\" data-end=\"385\">Tragedy on Third Mainland: Illegal Supercar Race After Seyi Vibez Show Ends in 2 Death<\/h3>\n<p data-start=\"196\" data-end=\"385\">Lagos woke up to chaos on Sunday morning after a <strong data-start=\"245\" data-end=\"272\">deadly illegal car race<\/strong> on the <strong data-start=\"280\" data-end=\"305\">Third Mainland Bridge<\/strong> claimed at least two lives, including innocent motorists caught in the crash.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"387\" data-end=\"754\">According to eyewitnesses, a fleet of luxury rides \u2014 including <strong data-start=\"450\" data-end=\"484\">Mercedes GLEs and Lexus RX350s<\/strong> \u2014 turned the 11.8km bridge into their personal racetrack just hours after the buzzing <strong data-start=\"571\" data-end=\"593\">Seyi Vibez concert<\/strong>. But the joyride turned tragic when one of the speedsters lost control, causing a chain-reaction collision that left mangled cars scattered across the bridge.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">People racing on the Third Mainland Bridge caused a fat@l acc!d\u00a3nt, resulting in at least two d\u00a3<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ths?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@ths<\/a> \ud83d\udc94\ud83d\udc94 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/f5Yu3NGXSz\">pic.twitter.com\/f5Yu3NGXSz<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Oyindamola\ud83d\ude44 (@dammiedammie35) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/dammiedammie35\/status\/1959861007473406340?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">August 25, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"756\" data-end=\"992\">Videos making rounds on social media show <strong data-start=\"798\" data-end=\"840\">wrecked vehicles and emergency workers<\/strong> trying to manage the disaster, sparking heated reactions from Nigerians who are furious over the rising trend of reckless late-night racing in Lagos.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"994\" data-end=\"1153\">\u201cThis bridge has become a death trap at night,\u201d one X (Twitter) user lamented, calling for <strong data-start=\"1085\" data-end=\"1122\">tighter patrols and speed cameras<\/strong> to clamp down on the menace.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1155\" data-end=\"1421\">For years, the Third Mainland has been notorious for drag races and stunt driving despite government warnings. Now, with two lives lost and more families thrown into mourning, many are demanding that authorities finally get serious before the next tragedy strikes.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1155\" data-end=\"1421\">Source &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/trendzgh.net\/\">Trendzgh<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tragedy on Third Mainland: Illegal Supercar Race After Seyi Vibez Show Ends in 2 Death<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12861,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12856","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-world"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/trendzgh.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/WhatsApp-Image-2024-06-29-at-1.29.11-PM.jpeg",485,614,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/trendzgh.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/WhatsApp-Image-2024-06-29-at-1.29.11-PM-150x150.jpeg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/trendzgh.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/WhatsApp-Image-2024-06-29-at-1.29.11-PM-237x300.jpeg",237,300,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/trendzgh.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/WhatsApp-Image-2024-06-29-at-1.29.11-PM.jpeg",485,614,false],"large":["https:\/\/trendzgh.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/WhatsApp-Image-2024-06-29-at-1.29.11-PM.jpeg",485,614,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/trendzgh.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/WhatsApp-Image-2024-06-29-at-1.29.11-PM.jpeg",485,614,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/trendzgh.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/WhatsApp-Image-2024-06-29-at-1.29.11-PM.jpeg",485,614,false],"chromenews-featured":["https:\/\/trendzgh.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/WhatsApp-Image-2024-06-29-at-1.29.11-PM.jpeg",485,614,false],"chromenews-large":["https:\/\/trendzgh.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/WhatsApp-Image-2024-06-29-at-1.29.11-PM-485x575.jpeg",485,575,true],"chromenews-medium":["https:\/\/trendzgh.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/WhatsApp-Image-2024-06-29-at-1.29.11-PM-485x410.jpeg",485,410,true]},"author_info":{"display_name":"C.power","author_link":"https:\/\/trendzgh.net\/author\/alimasalifu94\/"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/trendzgh.net\/index.php\/category\/news\/\" rel=\"category tag\">News<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/trendzgh.net\/index.php\/category\/world\/\" rel=\"category tag\">World<\/a>","tag_info":"World","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/trendzgh.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12856","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/trendzgh.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/trendzgh.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trendzgh.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trendzgh.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12856"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/trendzgh.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12856\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12862,"href":"https:\/\/trendzgh.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12856\/revisions\/12862"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trendzgh.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12861"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/trendzgh.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trendzgh.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12856"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trendzgh.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}