DISASTER AVERTED AS PETROL TANKER LADEN WITH 45,000 LITRES OF PREMIUM MOTOR SPIRITS LOSES CONTROL, CRASH AT NNEWI

ANAMBRA STATE POLICE COMMAND DIARY:

DISASTER AVERTED AS PETROL TANKER LADEN WITH 45,000 LITRES OF PREMIUM MOTOR SPIRITS LOSS CONTROL AND CRASHED AT NNEWI TOWN. 

Today 28/1/2020 at about 7:30am, a Mark tanker with Registration number EFR 10 ZQ  laden with forty  five thousand litres of premium motor spirits (petrol) and driven by one Pedro Ojugbeli 'm' aged 39years  of Delta State lost control and fell while it's contents spilled through the drainage at Traffic light junction Nnewi town in Nnewi North local Government Area of Anambra State.

Police patrol teams led  by DPO Central  Police Station Nnewi and other Sister Security Agencies rushed to the Scene, cordoned off the Area and diverted traffic to prevent calamity and looters from taking advantage of the situation to loot while fire service personnel equally responded and spread the truck and drainage with chemicals to prevent fire outbreak. 

Preliminary investigation revealed that the driver of the truck on reaching  the traffic light junction had a break failure while trying to negotiate at the junction and subsequently lost control which resulted to the accident. 

Meanwhile,situation  is brought under control, no loss of lives and no injury sustained. Effort is ongoing to transload the contents and clear obstructions in  order to enable free flow of traffic in the area.Case under investigation please. 

SP Haruna Mohammed PPRO Anambra State Police Command, 

For-Commissioner of Police Anambra State Command.