The former governor of Ogun State and the current Senator representing Ogun Central, Ibikunle Amosun, has sympathized with the victims of the multiple accidents resulting from the tanker explosion which occurred in the early hours of Thursday around the Sagamu Interchange area of Ogun State.
Many lives were lost due to the inferno and several victims rushed to the Ogun State University Teaching Hospital, Sagamu.
The Senator while expressing his condolences to the many families, who lost their loved ones in the very sad and unfortunate occurrence, urged and prayed to God to grant them the fortitude to bear the irreparable loss.
In the statement signed by his media aide, Bola Adeyemi, Senator Amosun however pleaded with all road users to obey traffic rules and regulations especially speed limits which are vital preventive measures to safeguard against road accidents.
Ten persons were burnt to death in Thursday after a fuel tanker exploded along the Lagos-Ibadan expressway.
The accident occurred around Conoil before Sagamu interchange axis of the highway.
Spokesperson of the Federal Road Safety Corps, Ogun Sector Command, Florence Okpe, confirmed the incident in Abeokuta, and the number of casualties.
According to her, vehicles involved in the accident were: a Mack truck with registration number: AKL 198 ZT, an Iveco truck with no registration number, a Mazda bus marked, FFE 361 XB, an unmarked Howo truck and the Mack tanker.
Okpe blamed the accident on speeding on the part of the Iveco truck’s driver.
She said the driver of the speeding Iveco truck had lost control of the wheels and rammed into the tanker which resulted in the fire outbreak due to leakage, adding that the Mazda bus was engulfed by the fire.
“The suspected cause of the multiple crashes was excessive speed which led to lose of control on the part of the Iveco truck and smashed the tanker body which resulted to fire outbreak due to leakage.
“The Mazda bus got engulfed in the spark of the fire”, Okpe said.
She added that the burnt bodies deposited to the Olabisi Onabanjo University Teaching Hospital, Sagamu.
Okpe quoted the Sector Commander FRSC Ogun Sector Command, Ahmed Umar to have commiserated with the family of the victims after visiting the scene of the incident.
She also quoted Umar to have advised motorists to drive cautiously, obey traffic rules and regulations as well as considering each other while driving.
