Dangote Truck Set Ablaze After Crushing Pedestrian In Anambra

A male adult was on Tuesday crushed to death in Onitsha by a truck belonging to the Dangote Group. THE WHISTLER gathered that the accident occurred around 0955hrs, near Zenith Bank, Onitsha, along Onitsha-Owerri road. The truck has no registration number.

According to eyewitnesses, the truck driver slipped off his lane due to excessive speeding, and crushed a pedestrian ‘who is well known in the community, hence the angry youths revenged by setting the truck ablaze when the driver was nowhere to be found’.

RC Kamal Musa, the acting sector education officer, FRSC, Anambra State Command, said, “The FRSC team from Upper Iweka Outpost was immediately mobilized for rescue operations only to be intercepted by the angry youths who took the corpse of the victim away.”

Meanwhile, the sector commander, Federal Road Safety Corps, Anambra State, CC Andrew A. Kumapayi, while sympathising with the family of the deceased, advised pedestrians to always use the pedestrian bridges where available; and further warned motorists, especially truck drivers, to abide by the stipulated speed limits in built-up areas to avoid unnecessary road traffic crashes.