A fuel truck on Tuesday in the Iwo Road area of Ibadan, Oyo State, crushed a commercial Nissan Micra with passengers against another truck marked ECQD704 heading towards the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway.

The accident caused gridlock around the axis and efforts by passers-by to rescue the trapped passengers were futile.

Witnesses told Peoples Gazette that the fuel truck experienced a brake failure and the driver lost control of the vehicle.

Official rescue efforts commenced over an hour after the incident and when the mangled car was retrieved, an elderly passenger who sat beside the driver was brought out dead and the driver sustained injuries.

The Gazette gathered that the truck drivers fled the scene immediately the accident occurred to escape mob attack.

Cops from the state police cordoned off the accident scene as officials of the Oyo State Road Traffic Management Authority (OYRTM) supervised the packing of soft drinks crates spilled on the road from a beverage truck also impacted by the accident.

OYRTM officials later cleared the road to ease traffic.