Many vehicles were burnt burnt beyond recognition while scores of peoples sustained injuries when struggling to jump out of their vehicles when a petrol tanker exploded this along the Lagos-Badagry expressway between the office of Department of State Security Services, DSS, and Ojo Military cantonment.
Commuters, road users and other eye witnesses present at the scene of the incident said that the tanker fell as a result of the collapsed state of the road and spilled its contents on the road.
The impact of the fall resulted in the explosion of the tanker, in the process, other vehicles caught fire.
About seven vehicles were consumed by the inferno, while an unspecified number of people, who were trapped in their cars were burnt during sad incident that occurred at about 6.38 am on Tuesday morning.
As of the time of filing this report when BusinessDay visited the scene, men of the Federal Fire Service and Lagos State Emergency Services Management Agency (LASEMA), the Federal Roads Safety Commission (FRSC) the Army and the Police were seen condoning off the vicinity while efforts are being made to remove the debris caused by the inferno billowing from the burning vehicles.
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The accident increased traffic gridlock on the road as commuters coming to Mile 2 were seen taking Tedi Road opposite the army cantonment as an alternative.
It would be recalled that since this year, road users along the corridor has been experiencing untold hardship due to the abandoned portions of the construction work by the Chinese Civil Engineering and Construction Company (CCECC).
These has resulted to high and daily accidents, loss of man hours, wear and tear of the vehicles and regular robbery attacks with little or no interventions by the authorities concerned on a very important and strategic corridor that leads Nigeria to other West African countries.
