Crash fuel tanker locked down Abuja-Nasarawa expressway

Commuters travelling between Abuja, Nigeria’s capital city, to states in the North-central region are now stranded as emergency officials battle to remove a petrol tanker which crashed at the Nyanya end of the road.

The tanker owned by B.G.K Nigeria Ltd, but painted in the colours of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, was coming from the Abuja end of the road when it suddenly lost control and crashed into an oncoming Golf car on the opposite lane.

The incident occurred at about 9 a.m, witnesses said.

The Golf car was completely destroyed but the occupants were rescued alive.