The female pedestrian was said to by passing when the fuel spilled on the road with the surrounding areas catching fire immediately.
Huge balls of flame instantly encircled her as eyewitnesses said no one could brace the raging fire to rescue her.
The Public Relations Officer of the Ogun State Traffic Compliance and Enforcement Corps , Babatunde Akinbiyi, confirmed the accident. He attributed the cause to “loss of control” on the part of the truck driver. Meanwhile, four persons at the weekend died while three others sustained grave injuries in a multiple accident that occurred on the Benin-Lagos highway. It was gathered that the accident occurred at the Ovia river bridge axis on the expressway involving two trucks and two other small vehicles .
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