Report reaching us have it that over 20 persons narrowly
escaped death yesterday, in Ogbor Hill Aba, Abia State, as brake of a fuel
tanker failed and crashed into two cars before ramming into a trailer as all
the vehicles moved in the same direction.
According to source, a fuel tanker with registration number,
Anambra: NEN 571 XA and a Mack with registration number, Rivers: XA 499 SKN
were descending the Water Side bridge when the driver of the tanker laden with
gas lost control as a result of brake failure. As the tanker driver struggled
to regain control, the truck hit two cars, a white 190 Mercedes Benz V-Boot and
a Honda Prelude saloon car which somersaulted twice leaving scores injured and
few dead.
The source stated that the driver of the trailer skillfully
used his truck to prevent the fuel tanker from running across the Aba water
side bridge where scores of passengers were boarding vehicles to different
parts of the city centre. “If not for what the trailer driver did, if the fuel
tanker had crossed the bridge, dead bodies could have littered the place
because many passengers were there trying to board vehicles to the city centre.
It was something to give God the glory that with all that happened, no soul was
lost”, they said.
At the scene of the accident, two policemen were seen
directing traffic due to the gridlock in the area. A cross section of
sympathizers who spoke to our correspondent at the scene urged the state and
the federal governments to come to the aid of residents of the area by building
a flyover at the bridge head to prevent the incessant accidents at the area.
Source: AFN
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