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  • FRSC cautions motorists on Lagos-Ibadan road over tanker accident

    The Federal Road Safety Commission (FRSC) has advised motorists travelling on the Lagos-Ibadan expressway to be cautious, following an accident on the long bridge inward Lagos State.

    FRSC’s Lagos State Sector Commander, Mr Hyginus Omeje, told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) that the accident occurred at 5:56 a.m on Sunday.

    He said: “The vehicular movement on Lagos-Ibadan Expressway inward Ibadan is currently diverted at OPIC to share the road with vehicles moving inward Lagos due to a crash involving a petrol tanker, which split its content on the road.

    “All emergency response agencies are on the ground. An empty tanker is also on the ground now for trans-loading of the product.”

    Omeje said the tanker with the petroleum product lost control and rammed into another vehicle, injuring three people.

    The sector commander said the vehicles involved were a white Mack tanker and a white Iveco truck with registration numbers LSR460XG and LND 818XN.

    He said the commission and other agencies were making efforts to remove obstructions from the road.

    Omeje urged motorists to exercise patience on the corridor.

    The Corps’ Public Education Officer, Mr Bisi Kazeem, also advised motorists to be cautious as another leaking tanker belonging to MRS Oil had been reported at a Mobil filling station on the Lagos-Ibadan expressway outward Lagos State.

    He said: “Another leaking tanker from MRS Oil has been reported by Mobil filling station on Lagos-Ibadan Expressway (outward Lagos) as one of the nuzzles gave way and fuel is pouring out seriously.

    “Traffic has been diverted from toll gate to forestall a fire disaster.

    “Men of Ojota Unit Command are on the ground and Lagos Fire Service has been activated.”

  • Five injured in tanker accident in Suleja

    Barely 24 hours after the Lagos Tanker fire incident, another tanker has collided with a trailer in Mallam Karu area of Suleja local government area of Niger state.

    Five people, adult male were injured in the incident that occurred on Friday.

    The tanker belonging to Conoil was laden with kerosene was said to have lost control and rammed into the trailer which resulted to a explosion.

    Read Also: Trailer, fuel tanker collides on Suleja-Minna road

    The Niger state Emergency Management Agency (NSEMA) confirmed the incident saying the injured victims have been rushed to the Suleja General Hospital for treatment.

  • 10 die in Taraba tanker accident

    Ten persons were feared dead on Wednesday in an accident involving a petrol tanker and a trailer in Zing town, Zing Local Government Area of Taraba State.

    Twenty others, who were injured, are lying ill at the General Hospital, Zing, and Federal Medical Centre, Jalingo.

    The accident occurred on a market day.

    According to eyewitnesses, the petrol-laden tanker, heading for Yola, Adamawa State, had a brake failure and crashed into the trailer.

    The tanker caught fire. Many traders were burnt.

    Buildings, vehicles and motorcycles and other valuables were razed.

    An eyewitness, Nyanshako Ishaya, said:

    “The tanker driver lost control when the brake failed and so rammed into a moving trailer and burst into flames.

    “A man on a motorcycle was telling people to clear off the road and within the blink of an eye, the tanker crashed into a moving trailer.

    “An expectant mother and three others were burnt. I saw them burning but I could do nothing to help. The fire was too much and I had to run for safety.

    “Many people died in that accident because it was a market day.”

    Police spokesman David Misal, who confirmed the incident, said: “We recovered eight bodies after the accident. In the evening, we discovered a burnt body inside one of the vehicles and this morning again, one of the injured persons died on his way to the Federal Medical Centre in Jalingo.

    “In all, 10 persons died. I can also confirm to you that several houses and shops were burnt because the accident happened in a densely populated area, more so that it was on a market day.”

    The accident is coming three weeks after a trailer killed the Chairman of the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN), Rev. Ben Ubeh, in the same town.

  • Woman burnt to death in Ibadan

    Woman burnt to death in Ibadan

    A woman, whose identity could not be ascertained last night, was yesterday burnt to death in a tanker fire accident in Ibadan, Oyo State. Three vehicles and buildings were also razed.

    The accident occurred about 11:30 am at Eleyele when the tank filled with 33,000 litres of diesel detached from the vehicle while ascending a hill.

    A witness, Mr. Lekan Durosaro, said the tank rolled over a Nissan Almera car coming behind and caught fire.

    The intensity of the fire reportedly made it difficult for rescuers to help the woman trapped in the car.

    The rescue team, including policemen, officials of Department of State Security Services (DSS), Nigerian Security and Civil Defence Corps, Federal Road Safety Corps and state Fire Brigade Service tried in vain to identify the woman.

    Sympathisers wailed as her remains were removed from the wreckage.

    The trailer driver and the motor boy fled the scene.

    Before fire fighters arrived, three buildings, including a church, Save and Serve Ministries, had been gutted.

    A Mazda car registered as Lagos LSR 208 EJ, parked in the compound of a former commissioner, was affected by the fire.

    The remains of the woman were taken to a mortuary.

    Police spokesman Adekunle Ajisebutu said: “Our men have been sent to the accident scene.”

  • Four killed, others injured in oil tanker accident

    Four killed, others injured in oil tanker accident

    Four persons, including a commercial motorcycle operator, were killed and others injured in a multiple vehicle accidents at Sagamu stretch of the Lagos – Ore expressway.

    The accident which occurred at 8pm on Monday at the steep and sharp bend near the Sagamu junction – old toll gate, involved a cyclist, a truck bearing diesel, another carrying Dangote cement, a commercial bus and lorry carrying flour.

    The Nation gathered that the accident was caused by the truck carrying diesel (black oil) which fell on the lane of the travelers going in the direction of Lagos, and emptied its content onto the adjacent lane.

    Motorists travelling in the direction of Ore, Benin who ran into the heavily oil – filled lane were swept off the road with some crashing into the concrete median and tumbling afterward while others plunged uncontrollably into a valley nearby.

    Abubakar Umar, the driver of the truck laden with Dangote Cement, told The Nation that it was a sheer miracle and divine intervention that ensured his escape from hurt when he lost control of the wheel following the slippery road surface made possible by spilled oil.

    According to him, he ran into the slippery road unaware like other victims before him, his truck lost balance, skidded off its track before plunging into a valley by the roadside, with the truck rolling many times over and hauling the bags of cement on the valley.

    The operatives of the Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC), the Police and the state’s traffic management agency – TRACE, were sighted controlling the traffic even as some labourers were also seen carrying sand to cover the oil – filled road surface.