In the wake of the tragic Lagos tanker explosion that claimed many lives, many are still trying to piece together exactly what happened and many are dealing with grief.
An eyewitness, however, contends that while the incident was tragic, some of the lives lost could have saved themselves if they had only moved to safety sooner.
The user who went on Twitter to explain what he saw said that many of the victims pulled out their phones to record the tanker falling over rather than running to safety.
The Twitter user said:
Lost my phone to that berger tanker accident yesterday. First it wasn’t that tanker drivers fault, a commercial bus dropped off passenger where there was no bustop and entered d fast land back without looking at his side mirror Tread
The tanker guy tried avoiding an accident but look at what happened at the end, he stepped on his brakes, hit the partition and tripped over, now here is d part that got me like we are really mad in d country, ignorance kill all the people that died
That tanker didn’t explode immediately, people had 1min to save themselves, every minute counts in an accident, people were trying to save their cars instead of their lives, there was a Camry in front of the tanker, man was actually trying to reverse his car, he was so foolish
Save yourself and savage the car later, fire and electricity are like the same, from one path to the other, now assumption kill us for this country, people were in their car making videos instead of running away, fire started, panic sets in, I watched as people got burnt
It became a struggle contest, who’s gonna come out first, fire rounded them up, what they should have done first, dey did it last and paused with their lives, may their soul rest in peace.. But foolishness killed those that died on that bridge… God forgive all their sins. Alot of spelling errors…. I was typing with anger…
