Babatunde Akinbiyi of the Ogun State Traffic Compliance and Enforcement Agency confirmed the event to reporters, stating that a 33,000-liter tanker carrying gasoline crashed as a result of excessive driving and spilled its contents onto the highway. He added that a fire started as a result of the fall’s impact and spread to other cars and electrical poles.

There have been reports of an inferno along the Abeokuta–Kobape–Siun–Sagamu Interchange segment of the PMB Expressway caused by a 30,000-liter fuel-laden tanker that lost control and toppled on its side, spilling its contents at around 0100 hours today.

The sad event also resulted in the damage of a PHCN cable that supplied energy to Mowe and the surrounding area, as well as the burning of a truck and a tow truck at the side of the road.

Rescue and emergency services consisting of TRACE, Ogun State and Nestlé PLC Fire Service, FRSC, and the Police are still on the ground to restore normalcy and orderliness after putting out the fire and completing the decantation procedure, even if the exact number of casualties cannot yet be determined. He stated