A female passer-by has been burnt to death in an accident involving a tanker loaded with PMS and a commercial Mazda bus around Lotto area on Lagos-Ibadan Expressway.
This was confirmed by the spokesperson for the Traffic Compliance and Enforcement Corps (TRACE), Babatunde Akinbiyi, while addressing newsmen in Abeokuta on Sunday.
He said the accident occurred around 8:03p.m. on Saturday.
“According to eye witness, a PMS laden truck lost control on motion and hit the barrier.
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“The content immediately started gushing out and after a while the content caught fire and two other parked vehicles got burnt in the process.
“Unfortunately, one adult female passer -by along the axis got burnt too in the process,” he said.
Akinbiyi said that the corpse of the deceased had been deposited at Fakoya private morgue in Sagamu.
