On Tuesday, drivers on the Third Mainland Bridge were frightened after a space bus caught fire on the bridge.
When the bus caught fire around 6 p.m., the owner and his driver were said to have escaped death by a whisker.
According to reports, the occupants left Lagos Island heading for Isolo when the space bus painted in white developed wiring problem at Ilaje inward Iyana-Oworo and this led to the fire outbreak.
Eye witnesses’ accounts said there were no fire extinguishers in the bus as at the time of the incident but the occupants on noticing the inferno hurriedly escaped sourcing for one.
It was learnt that by the time they returned with fire extinguishers, the bus had been reduced to ashes.
It was learnt that law enforcement agents in the axis and co-motorists rallied round them but this was too late.
However, men of Lagos State Fire and Rescue Service were contacted who eventually contained the fire.
Before the arrival of the fire fighters, many road users were said to have abandoned their vehicles on the bridge out of fear.