Six persons were feared dead in a petrol tanker crash which occurred at Kilometre 8, Obong Itam, along Uyo-Calabar highway around 8:30 p.m. on Monday. It was learnt that the driver, in a hurry to escape police arrest, sped off and crashed into the pavement along the highway.
According to an eyewitness, Mr. Cyril Ekpenyong, from Obong Itam, a tricycle was trapped and the passengers in the tricycle died in the inferno.
According to him, the tricycle rider was taken to a hospital, but died thereafter. Ekpenyong said the driver refused to stop when the police flagged the truck to stop, but the police did not pursue the vehicle.
He said the thinking of the truck driver was that the police team was pursuing him as he had poorlighting even at the rear.
“We saw the truck as the police were trying to flag it down because it was driving with one headlamp which was not even bright.
“The driver did not mind the police as he veered to the right of the policemen to escape,” he said.
Public Relations Officer, PRO, of the Federal Road Safety Corps, FRSC, in the area, Mr. Godgift Uwen, confirmed the accident.
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