Federal Road Safety Corps, says it is looking out for underage tanker and truck drivers to prevent accidents on the expressway.

According to Corps, the legal limit for driving in the country is eighteen years and above, but that somebody is looking small does not make him below eighteen years.

Its Lagos Sector Commander, Hyginus Omeje made this known at the third Quarter overview of twenty-eighteen Corporate Strategic Goals and Projection at Sector Command, Ojodu Berger.

Omeje said they were always watching out for underage tanker and truck drivers to prevent crashes on the road, especially on the expressway, saying there were downward trends in the crashes involving tankers and articulated vehicles since twenty-sixteen.

He said the corps had intensified its patrol to prevent crashes in all the six geopolitical zones in the country, saying it was so serious, particularly in twenty-sixteen when they were recording tankers and trucks crashes almost regularly, until the Corps Marshal, Boboye Oyeyemi, flagged off the training and retraining programmes for tanker drivers.

Omeje said since then, the corps had been sensitising them through various programmes to ensure minimum standards were maintained on the roads, advising tanker drivers to desist from giving their vehicles to motor boys to drive.

He said such action could lead to crashes on the roads as some of them have no skills and experiences to drive such vehicles, urging truck and tanker drivers to follow rules and regulations of driving articulated vehicles by fixing their speed limit devices.

The sector commander also charged them to avoid alcohol intake and shun reckless driving for safety on the road.

Also, FRSC Head of Public Education, Bisi Kazeem said the corps was taking precautionary action following the June 28 tanker explosion at the Otedola Link Bridge on Lagos-Ibadan Expressway.

Kazeem said they were charging them to start engaging their members in rigorous traffic training so as to meet minimum safety standards concerning their vehicles, saying it was very important to train and retrain them to enable them to follow the rules and regulations at the same time to meet the road standard concerning their vehicle.”

In his remarks, the National Chairman, NUPENG/PTD, Salmon Oladiti, on behalf of his members, commiserated with the families of those who lost their lives in the fire incident.

Oladiti described the incident as “an unfortunate occurrence’’, saying members of the NUPENG /PTD have been avoiding such calamities.

According to him, the union has been collaborating with the FRSC and other law enforcement agencies in observing minimum safety standards on the highways.

“All efforts will be put in place to ensure that this kind of disaster does not recur on our roads,” he said.