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Nigeria: Driver Escapes Death As Vehicle Bursts in Flame
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Vanguard (Lagos)
18 October 2007
Posted to the web 18 October 2007
Samuel Oyadongha
Yenagoa
Providence averted what could have been the tragic end of a driver when his vehicle rammed into a stationary truck Tuesday night in Yenagoa and burst in flame.The driver was seriously injured and is currently on admission at the Federal Medical Centre where doctors are battling to save his life.
The incident occurred at the Yenizue-Gene axis of the Sani Abacha expressway at about 9 pm when the driver of the ill-fated orange colour Toyota pick up with registration number BL 630 AGL belonging to a fast food outfit in Yenagoa, rammed into a broken down Fiat trailer tanker marked XS 576 PHC loaded with fuel.
This reporter who visited the scene of the accident gathered that the mangled Toyota pick up van, which was conveying frozen chicken and fish to the Azikoro road office of the fast food outfit, went up in flames after colliding with the truck.
The near tragic incident, witnesses told Vanguard, could have been averted but for the error of judgment on the part of the truck driver who did not move out of the road completely when he had double tyre blown out.
He was said to have left the vehicle on the road for fear that it would fall on its side due to the pressure of the consignment it was carrying.
Though the driver and his crew were said to have erected a caution sign and grasses to warn other motorists of the danger ahead, it was too late before the driver of the Toyota pick up could see the warning sign as he was on high speed.
The Toyota pick up was said to have burst into flame due to the strong impact of the collision leaving the driver trapped inside.
The timely intervention of other motorists including the driver of the stationary truck, however, saved the badly injured driver of the pick up from being roasted alive as he was out-dragged out unconscious.
The officials of the state fire service unit also rushed to the scene on receiving the distress call of sympathizers and succeeded in preventing the fire from engulfing the haulage truck.
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Efforts to get the comment of the state sector commander of the Federal Road Safety Corps, Mr. Jonhn Meheux proved abortive as he said to be out of the state on assignment but police sources told Vanguard that the driver of the haulage truck has been arrested.
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