AN early morning fire yesterday involving a Tanker laden with diesel and an Audi car, loaded with bags of rice caught fire along the Lagos-Benin express way where the driver of the tanker was burnt to death.
Two other victims have also been hospitalised as a result of the accident. The tanker in a bid to avert a collision hit the road divider and tumbled across to the other lane where the Audi was hit.
Philip Shaibu who is the Edo State deputy governor, visited the scene of the accident cautioned drivers to always abide by traffic rules.This happened opposite the University of Benin Teaching Hospital (UBTH) and caused heavy traffic and increase in transportation fare.
According to him “I think we need a lot of public enlightenment programmes to educate our commuters on how to obey traffic rules and also stop moving against traffic because that is what I was told caused this accident”.
“The first thing to do is to get the truck out of this place and check the level of damage this accident has caused and from there we follow it up as a government. I think the lesson from this is for us all, who are drivers to always abide by traffic regulation" he Said.
