4 dead as tanker, truck collide, burst into flames along Epe Expressway
FOUR unidentified persons were confirmed dead when a 45,000-litre tanker laden with Premium Motor Spirit, PMS, known as petrol, ran into a heavy-duty vehicle conveying cement, Sunday evening. It was gathered that the two vehicles burst into flames due to the impact of the collision at the scene of accident that occurred at Kaiyetoro end of Lekki-Epe Expressway by Eleko bus stop, Ibeju-Lekki, Lagos. An eyewitness said the two vehicles went up in flames and that a motorcycle rider was also caught up in the inferno. Director, Lagos Fire and Rescue Service, Mrs Margret Adeseye, said the state fire service, Epe Station, on arrival at the scene discovered that both vehicles had head-on collision as they travelled in opposite directions to Lekki and from Epe respectively. “The crew swiftly doused the raging fire from the accidental spillage of contents from the tanker and recovered four bodies suspected to have died from both vehicles,” Adeseye stated. It was gathered that three of the bodie...