{"id":218398,"date":"2024-09-17T11:53:07","date_gmt":"2024-09-17T11:53:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2024\/09\/17\/18-killed-as-vehicle-catches-fire-on-benin-sagamu-expressway\/"},"modified":"2024-09-17T11:53:07","modified_gmt":"2024-09-17T11:53:07","slug":"18-killed-as-vehicle-catches-fire-on-benin-sagamu-expressway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2024\/09\/17\/18-killed-as-vehicle-catches-fire-on-benin-sagamu-expressway\/","title":{"rendered":"18 Killed As Vehicle Catches Fire On Benin-Sagamu Expressway"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>A vehicle carrying at least 18 people caught fire on the Benin-Sagamu Expressway, resulting in severe burns that made identification impossible.<\/p>\n<p>Babatunde Akinbiyi, spokesperson for the Ogun State Traffic Compliance and Enforcement Agency, confirmed this in a phone conversation with PUNCH Online on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Akinbiyi claimed that the driver had placed a keg full of petrol at the back of the car.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"td-adspot-title\">Advertisement<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The keg\u2019s contents were alleged to have dripped over the vehicle\u2019s hot exhaust, resulting in an explosion.<\/p>\n<p>The driver managed to escape with minor injuries, but the 18 passengers were burned beyond recognition as a result of the explosion and the moving vehicle.<\/p>\n<p>He added that eyewitnesses reported that the car, which was completely laden with passengers, was going from the country\u2019s east to Lagos State prior to the incident.<\/p>\n<p>Akinbiyi said, \u201cThere was a road accident today along the RCC Yard on the Sagamu-Benin Expressway at about 3:30 pm. 18 people were presumed dead as the vehicle caught fire, and the passengers were burnt beyond recognition.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEyewitness accounts, corroborated by the driver, indicated that there was a keg full of petrol inside the bus, which fell over when the vehicle entered a pothole.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe petrol poured onto the floor of the bus, then onto the exhaust pipe, causing the vehicle to catch fire while in transit.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He recognised the vehicle as a white Toyota Hiace bus with the license plate XA 690 AKU.<\/p>\n<p>Akinbiyi stated that the injured driver was sent to a neighbouring hospital, while the bodies of the deceased were placed at the State Hospital mortuary in Ijebu-Ode.<\/p>\n<p>READ MORE: \u201cI Didn\u2019t Know He\u2019s True Man Of God\u201d \u2013 Portable Apologizes Days After Assaulting Preacher<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe partially burnt and injured driver was rescued and taken to Rona Hospital in Ijebu-Ode, while the presumed dead were deposited at the State Hospital Mortuary, Ijebu-Ode, by the FRSC,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>He encouraged motorists not to store fuel kegs in their vehicles while on the road.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhile TRACE, FRSC, police, and OGSEAS commiserate with the families of the deceased, motorists are once again admonished not to store fuel in kegs and jerry cans while in transit, due to the attendant consequences,\u201d Akinbiyi concluded.<\/p>\n<div class=\"code-block code-block-7\" style=\"margin: 8px auto; text-align: center; display: block; clear: both;\">\n<div data-advadstrackid=\"941128\" data-advadstrackbid=\"1\" class=\"infor-target\" id=\"infor-1387613313\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/FirstBank-Giant-Strides300x250.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"250\"\/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A vehicle carrying at least 18 people caught fire on the Benin-Sagamu Expressway, resulting in severe burns that made identification impossible. 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