Seven persons were crushed to
death at the Upper Iweka axis in
the commercial city of Onitsha
when a petrol tanker, a truck
belonging to Dangote Group and
another carrying 40 feet container
crashed in the city.
Saturday Sun gathered that the
first tanker lorry with registration
number, XG 613 AKR had failed
brake opposite the Toronto hospital
along Onitsha-Asaba Expressway,
crushing people especially motorists
along the ever busy Upper Iweka
area.
However as the men of the Federal
Road Safety Corps, FRSC were still
busy evacuating the bodies, a
trailer lorry carrying a 40 feet
container with registration number
XA353 GGU and another trailer
carrying Dangote Cement also had
failed brakes and crushed other
road users.
The first incident claimed the lives
of two men and a woman who were
on their way home after the day’s
job while the second and third
incidents claimed the lives of a
commercial motorcyclist and his
passengers whose bodies were
mauled beyond recognition.
Narrating his experience, a survivor
of the second accident in a vehicle
with registration number
DL486ENU who pleaded anonymity
said his escape was miraculous since
the trailers lost brakes and were
busy crushing their victims from
the Toronto hospital to the foot of
the Upper Iweka fly-over.
“I was coming back from my office,
am a lawyer, when I got to Upper
Iweka, I saw a terrible traffic
gridlock, I was told that a tanker
lorry failed brake and crushed
people at the area. I also noticed
that vehicles were parked along the
road, suddenly as I was still at the
traffic gridlock, I heard
frightening sound, before I could
know what was happening, two
trailers carrying container and
cement had lost brakes and started
crushing people”
He further stated “I could not
jump out of my car because I was
like a person glued until I heard a
great bang and I thought I was
dead, it was people that came and
brought me out, but up till now, I
can’t really say what happened to
me but everybody that saw me
come out of the car told me to
thank my God”
Another eyewitness who gave his
name as Dozie Okonkwo, a bus
conductor said that the only woman
that died in the incident was a daily
money collector who had closed for
the day and was on her way back to
her home at Old Road, Onitsha.
“She came to enter our bus, I told
her that the price was N70, she
jumped out because she wanted a
cheaper one, not quite long, the
incident happened, when we rushed
there, she was already crushed, her
body was already crushed, it was
only her cloth that some people
used to recognize her, her flesh
was scattered all over the place”
However the first tanker lorry was
said to be coming from a filling
station where it had dispensed its
product in the commercial city of
Onitsha and was on its way to Port
Harcourt when the driver allegedly
lost control of the vehicle, skidded
off the road and crushed people.
http://sunnewsonline.com/new/cover/7-crushed-as-petrol-tanker-trailers-crash-in-onitsha/

May there soul RIP. Amen

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R.I.P to the dead

That woman. If she had known she would have entered ЂΞ bus пѻԎ mind ЂΞ T fare...just see how she met her untimely death fatally. RIP