Two dead, 13 injured in tanker-vans crash
People pull out injured passenger of a van which collided with an 18-wheeler oil tanker on the National Highway near the Pakistan Steel Mills on Monday. Photo: PPI
Two people died while 13 suffered severe injuries in a collision between an oil tanker and two vans on Monday morning in the vicinity of the Pakistan Steel Mills on the National Highway within the limits of Steel Town police station.
Police and rescue workers of a welfare organisation reached the spot upon receiving the information and shifted the injured to a nearby private hospital on Stadium Road. The injured were said to be in critical condition.
According to the police, the two deceased have been identified as Muhammad Saeed, 43, and Waqas Ahmed, 26, while the injured were identified as Owais Saleem, 28, Abdul Mannan, 41, Muhammad Mateen, 27, Shahbaz Hussain, 37, Aamir Mushtaq, 30, Rehan Abdul Sattar, 32, Sharjeel Ahmed, 20, Rahat Hussain, 32, Muhammad Parvaiz, 44, Ali Raza, 22, Hussain Fakhruddin, 32, Junaid Hussain, 30 and Muhammad Aslam, 40.
SHO Steel Town Gul Bahar said the vans were approaching from the other direction near Steel Mill-turn and Chowrangi when the oil tanker slammed the brakes in an emergency, and the two vans rammed into it.
Consequently, two people in the van, including the driver, died, and 13 suffered serious injuries. Following the accident, the deceased and injured were removed from the van and sent to a hospital. Meanwhile, the oil tanker driver managed to escape from the spot after the accident, while raids were carried out in search of him. The SHO said that the traffic resumed after a heavy crane removed the oil tanker and vans off the road. He said that further investigation is underway regarding the accident.
Published in The Express Tribune, September 6th, 2022.