Fire guts Kobil Service Station

The fire that started at about 1am was as a result of a speeding Motor Vehicle, registration number UAH 803V Toyota Primo that lost control and collided into a fuel pump.

           

The highly flammable pump and shade structures did not stand a chance. The driver is believed to have been speed driving under the influence of alcohol.

           

“The vehicle was coming from Kampala road towards Bombo road at about 1am on terrible speed and when the driver saw a bus that was parked alongside the road, on trying to avoid a collision he instead drove into the station ending up crushing into the fuel pump,” said  Paul Ochom, an eye witness working as a security guard at the station,

       

He said that the five occupants of the vehicle, two men and three women, fled after the collision. 

Ochom also explained that the impact was so fast because the station caught fire immediately after the collision. 

Police was alerted and arrived at the scene to put out the fire.

           

The station manager Kobil Bombo road, Patrick Ssekamate said that he didn’t know exactly what happened though he had received a phone call at 1: 30am by one Richard Omuyo a pump attendant.  He added that no one had been injured among his staff.