At least ten people have been confirmed
dead and scores injured when a fuel tanker
failed break and rammed into commercial
buses and some private cars at the Lagos
park axis of the Enugu/Onitsha express
road, Onitsha, on Tuesday, January 24th.
Most of the victims were hawkers,
passengers and transport workers along
that axis.
Speaking to Anambra State Broadcasting
Service, ABS, an eye witness Mr. Hida Ida
said he came to board a bus going to Benin
when he saw the tanker speeding down
from the express road while the conductor
of the vehicle was signalling the people to
clear from the road before it finally
crashed there.
Another eye witness who cheated death,
Mr.Christian Uche said he was about
entering one of the damaged buses when
he saw the tanker and ran away.
He said many people were affected because
the place is busy with both vehicular and
human movements as well as business
activities along the lagos axis of the Enugu/
Onitsha express road.
Reacting to the incident,Mr. Sunday Ajayi
the state sector commander, FRSC,who
sympathized with the victims’ families
cautioned drivers against over speeding
and called for attitudinal l change among
road user.
He said the commission will intensify
efforts to maintain free flow of traffic at
that axis noting as well that the axis was a
little bit congested due to road construction
going on there.
ABS also visited Toronto hospital where
some of the victims were taken to and
discovered that three out of the seven
victims taken there are dead. Dr Emeka
Eze,the MD of the hospital who spoke to
the the ABS said that the remaining are in
stable condition and called on park owners
along that axis to ensure their buses do not
encroach into the express road to avoid
obstruction of free flow of traffic.
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