Traffic on the ever-busy Lagos/Ibadan expressway was put on halt for several hours today as a tanker laden with Premium Motor Spirit (PMS) that was reportedly travelling from Lagos towards Ibadan at about 11:30pm on Thursday accidentally stumbled and fell, blocking the expressway.
Motorists travelling out of Lagos were redirected to a single lane by officials of the Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC), Lagos State Traffic Management Authority (LASTMA), the Ogun State Traffic Compliance and Enforcement Corps, and the police.
An official of the FRSC said a bad portion of the road around the Berger bus stop was the cause of the accident.
Pointing towards a pothole on the road, the FRSC official commented: “There is a pothole there, maybe the driver entered it and couldn’t control and then rammed into the wall that partitioned the road.”
He said security operatives were around to chase anyone that would attempt to scoop fuel from the fallen tanker.
Most passengers spent hours trekking from the old toll gate to Berger bus stop.
We were travelling on sesame road on Thursday and we saw a conoil truck carrying fuel with bad chassis, this was pointed to FRSC officers on the road and the answer we got from them was shocking to us. We were told that the truck belongs to a big man like us hence they cannot take the vehicle off the road.
ReplyDeleteI don't think these officers know the power they are vested upon and they can prevent most of these accidents on the road.
They need to do more and we the citizens need to insist on the right things to be done.