oyinglory: Eewooooo!....RIP 2 d dead o.
3rd 2 comment sha

Donchyke39: 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.

The Onitsha Unit Commander of the Federal Road Safety Corps, FRSC, Mr. Anthony Meta could not comment on the incident as he refused to pick his calls. An officer who did not want his name in print confirmed the incident and said he personally led his team to deposit the bodies of the victims in the mortuary and took the injured persons to Toronto Hospital for medical attention.

http://sunnewsonline.com/new/cover/7-crushed-as-petrol-tanker-trailers-crash-in-onitsha/

ceejay675: Dis is a false information....I was dia live wen it hapnd....I was at asaba park....dangote truck didn't kill anyone...it was d 1st truck that killed 6 not 7...2 women n 4 men....it was really terrible...have not seen anytin like dat in my life b4....d way dia hands legs n head cut off...God hv mercy....government shd do sumtin abt dat upper iweka...d way bus drivers n lorries drivers drive..dy drive wit full speed knowin fully well dat d road is nt gud n peeps always gather along d road

cupid4ig: the problem is not government its the truck drivers they know very well upper iweka is always congested but they will keep speeding all the way from army barracks down to that toronto hospital thats when they will start applying their brakes. sometimes i just wonder if these truck driver have ordinary common sense. once am driving and see them coming from back o always clear so they will pass. rip to the dead

Effwazobia: People keep commenting and saying government should do something. When will you guys wake up? We are on our own, nothing is working. No government in this so called one nigeria. Spliting the damn country is the only thing that will work. If not, come 10 years from now, we will still be wallowing in our usual illusions of God this God that or Government this or that. Your government officials are lining their pockets, they've bought up the whole UAE, and you still think they care? Bottom line, we need to go our separate ways because whatever we have now is not working

Zona.com:
[size=28pt]govt should restrict their activity to night times. RIP to the dead[/size]

Greatken007: MIND YOU....THE ARTICULATED VEHICLE WHOSE BRAKE HAD FAILD DOES NT BELONG TO DANGOTE,BUT THE VEHICLE THAT FAILED BRAKE HIT DANGOTE TRAILER,THE TRUTH OF THE MATTER IS THAT THE DANGOTE TRAILER REALLY SAVED LIVES BECAUSE THE VEHICLE WHOSE BRAKE HAD FAILED USED DANGOTE TRAILER AS BRAKE TO PREVENT MORE HAVOCK..YESTERDAY WAS MY FIRST TIME TO SEE TRAILER COMING BEHIDE ME WITH PPLE SHOUTING,HW ME AND FRIEND MANAGED TO TAKE TO OUR HEELS I CANT EXPLAIN..A BOY WHO WAS SELLING PURE WATER ACTUAL STOLE A PHONE FROM ONE OF THE VICTIMS THAT WAS EVEN MY GREATEST SHOCK.I DONT PRAY FOR ANY OF US HERE TO WITNESS SUCH SCENE EVER IN OUR LIFE TIME.

mercylicious: When the road was not good, we said it was cos of bad road. Now the road is good, we have more accidents than when the road was bad. If they ply at night, it will also be bad cos they will sleep off on steering. I just wonder the best way to stop these accidents.

ceejay675: Dis is a false information....I was dia live wen it hapnd....I was at asaba park....dangote truck didn't kill anyone...it was d 1st truck that killed 6 not 7...2 women n 4 men....it was really terrible...have not seen anytin like dat in my life b4....d way dia hands legs n head cut off...God hv mercy....government shd do sumtin abt dat upper iweka...d way bus drivers n lorries drivers drive..dy drive wit full speed knowin fully well dat d road is nt gud n peeps always gather along d road