The Lagos State Traffic Management Authority has averted a potential fire disaster following the overturning of a fully loaded petrol tanker at Awoyaya along the Lekki–Epe Expressway in the early hours of Sunday.
PUNCH Online learnt that the incident occurred at about 2:00 a.m. on the inward lane of the expressway when the articulated vehicle conveying Premium Motor Spirit reportedly lost balance and overturned.
Confirming the development in a Sunday statement signed by the Director of Public Affairs and Enlightenment Department of LASTMA, Adebayo Taofiq, said the situation posed an imminent and grave danger to human lives, public and private property, as well as the immediate environment, due to the volatile nature of the tanker’s contents.
The agency said its Rescue and Recovery Unit was immediately deployed after a distress alert was received.
